To continue down the long, winding, strange road, which is highway Dylan, Bob Dylan has turned to being a DJ. Dylan has launched “Theme Time Radio Hour”, available on XM Radio (XM Channel 40), introducing his favorite records, organized each week around a different theme — like cars, drinking or, this week’s theme, weather.

Who knew that the once reclusive Dylan had such an eclectic musical taste. Some of the artists featured in his collection are: LL Cool J, Muddy Waters, and Buck Owens. Talk about variety!

Most of the shows are recorded from the tour Dylan is on while traveling between gigs. Some are recorded at home, some at where ever Dylan happens to be when the mood strikes, but Dylan has always been his own man, doing his own thing, on his time schedule.

These will probably be podcasts soon, so if you’re not a subscriber to XM, just hang in there and I’m sure you’ll get a chance to listen this gems.

Somehow in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, I missed posting this on Friday. The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival kicks off on Friday April 28th. Hot Docs is the largest documentary film festival in North America.

With its lively mix of public and professional events, Hot Docs is the ideal North American market and meeting place for the documentary industry. Last year, the festival attracted over 1700 delegates, including documentary filmmakers, buyers, programmers, distributors and commissioning editors from around the world.

If your in or around Toronto, be sure and stop by.

One of the things I love most about the mac, is the ease of installing software. This is just one of the many areas in which Apple puts MS to shame.

Usually one of the first things people say when they see how easy it is to install new software on a mac is “Wow, it’s a lot harder in Windows”.

What are a few of the things you like most about your mac?

Junk Mail. We as Americans receive lots of it. Seems not a day goes by that I don’t get a few credit card offers, mortgage offers, or adverts for shopping stores I’ve never heard of. Junk mail has gotten progressively worse. In fact, here are a few facts about junk mail:

1. 100 million trees are used to produce junk mail, EACH YEAR.
2. 250,000 homes could be heated with one day’s supply of junk mail
3. Americans receive almost 4 million tons of junk mail every year

As most of you know, your information is readily available (and sold) to all types of third party companies and vendors around the world. Maybe you didn’t know that some of the places selling our information are the very places we “trust” to keep our information. Banks, credit card companies, airline frequent flyer programs, cable companies and even credit bureaus sell this information.

But then again, some junk mail is interesting. I especially like the assorted array of “collectible” catalogs sent to the previous owner of my residence.

What’s the most interesting piece of junk mail you’v ever received?