10.07.06
Development Screenshot
Well, my connection internet is acting like ass tonight, and since I’m avoiding any and all work, I thought I would make a post. From time to time I like to take a screen capture of my computer just to show the world how much pimped out bling I have on it. For your reference, here it is:
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That’s a desktop resolution of 3200×1200 for anyone keeping score (it’s 2, 19″ monitors, each running 1600×1200). Although it doesn’t look like it, I am running standard Windows 2000 Professional. The reason it doesn’t look like Windows is because I’m running an explorer replacement called bbLean. It’s a pretty minimalist shell, but after I got used to the interface, there’s no going back to regular Windows. And if you’re an X Windows user, it does provide virtual desktops. But why switch? For some reason, Windows Explorer would repeatedly freeze, hosing the CPU. It’s really annoying when you’re trying to get work done and your computer just stops, so my solution was to get rid of explorer. On the top right is my music player, Quintessential. Along the right is a nifty little program called RainMeter, You can plug in different widgets to keep track of your computer’s telemetry, weather conditions, RSS feeds, and other useful things. Here’s a clean version of the background wallpaper (1.1 MB JPEG), it’s from the anime series Stellvia of the Universe (Ucchuu no Stellvia in Japanese).
And finally, you can take a look at what I’m working on now. This is going to be the header image for the new page that I’m designing for the SSL side of this site. I’ve been needing to make a real theme for it as the current page is just embarrassingly ugly. I can’t remember where the inspiration for this theme came from, I think it was one of the early installation screens from Longhorn (codename for Windows Vista). You can see I borrowed the “plastic pods” from the front page, I think I’m in a pod design phase right now. Anyway, the full site should be up soon, stay tuned.
