It’s just gone 6:30 in the morning and I haven’t been to bed yet – well, I napped for a few hours after midnight but that doesn’t count. I’ve been playing with Rainmeter for the last few hours. It’s a desktop customisation application that allows you to display different information on your desktop through various gadgets. It’s similar to to the existing Windows 7 gadgets but the possibilities seem to be endless as you can fully customise it by altering code and even the graphics to your liking.

I haven’t done anything special with it just yet as I’ve just been trying out different skins that are already out there. Some skins can just pull selected info from your PC, in my case it shows my Internet Connection, HDD usage, time and date etc. But some of the themes can be pretty comprehensive, some take up the nearly the entirety of your desktop and give you full access to applications, system info, email and RSS feeds in one hit. It really is quite impressive and it’s interesting to see what people can do with it. Another theme I’ve seen pretty much emulates the Android OS.

The application can be found here, and you can find skins here. Word of warning, a few of the skins do contain malware, but you can overcome this by checking the comments for the skin – if comments are disabled then it’s probably dodgy!

So, the daily blogs thing didn’t quite work out. It’s probably because I don’t really have anything to talk about and I don’t really want to talk about work here, especially when having a bad couple of days.

Though I did just notice a little issue with WordPress. For the last few months when logged in to your blog a toolbar is displayed at the top of the page, which shows your icon, display name and a few other options like create a new entry or page, stuff like that. Well, when viewing the comments for my last entry there was a little pic of Kelvin as my icon. WTF MON!

How am I feeling today?

Feelin’ fine. That is all.

Instead of watching the Royal Wedding over the weekend, I was having way too much fun building a Media Center PC for my Mother. The reason for this was because the Digital TV Recorder I had bought for her Birthday in 2008 had finally given up the ghost (wouldn’t record a damn thing!) after almost three years of giving us grief. I thought I’d build a basic PC dedicated for this purpose, because I wasn’t in the mood to encounter various problems with another unit and didn’t really want to replace the whole thing a year down the line when HD Freeview becomes available in our area.

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Today was one of those few days of the year where I leave my computer switched off and go outside *shock*. I went in to our Old Town to attend the Jack in the Green festival that was taking place, as my girlfriend was taking part in the main procession and would also be doing a performance with her dance troupe later on the day. I had my camera on me and got quite a few decent-ish pics, here’s a small gallery of Sarah-approved photos for you to check out.