A lot of you have noticed by now, but there are now 9 different banners for the image up there – to those of you that will, have fun refreshing the site over and over to see them all (and yes Meredith, the “pretty blue header” is back :) ). Personal favorite is the one with green upholstery and wood trim.

Since I don’t have much else on my mind, time for some “nerd corner.” New iPods expected this week (Wednesday) – supposedly, we’ll get a 2gb Shuffle, the iPod mini’s will get color screens, and will use flash-memory instead of hard drives and come in sizes of 4, 6, and 8gb, and the iTunes phone is expected to be unveiled.

For those of you not in the loop, Apple and Motorola have been developing a phone that has an iTunes-like software on it that will allow you to use it like an iPod, but a new twist will be being able to download music tracks from the iTunes Music Store “over-the-air;” it’s expected sizes are 256 and 512mb.

The only problem is that the expected 8gb mini is supposed to be at the same price level as the 20gb regular… which doesn’t make much economic sense for Apple (same price, more than double the capacity)… we’ll see what unfolds.

More later.

Plug in. Sia bene.