My Cool New Desktop

After checking out the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell group over at Flickr, I decided it was time to change my desktop. Normally, my desktop is pretty boring. I hate all the themes that come with Windows XP, so I just go for a plain colour background (usually blue), the silver Windows colour scheme, and that's it. But I finally decided to do something different.

First I went to Mobydock.com and got their excellent Taskbar replacement, the Mobydock. It works like the Dock for Mac OSX, and so far I like it.

Once Mobydock was installed, I visited a couple websites that have Windows Desktop Wallpapers available, and found a new wallpaper (at SpaceWallpapers.net). Incidentally, if like changing the look of 'skinnable' applications, you should check out Customize.org. Not only do they have some absolutely amazing images for use as Windows Desktop wallpaper, but they've got skins for heaps of programs. Totally. Freakin. Awesome.

After I'd finally decided on the wallpaper I wanted, I cleaned all the icons on my desktop, and the final result looked like this:



I took the screenshot and leaned back to admire my cool new desktop. And waved my arms and contorted desperately to avoid falling over backwards. I keep forgeting that I've removed the back from my desk chair to try to improve my posture. And of course at that exact moment, my wife walked through the room sweating glowing gorgeously after her Kinetic workout on the Playstation, glanced over at me, then at my new desktop, rolled her eyes, and muttered something that sounded an awful lot like '...married a space nerd' before heading to the shower.