Availability of time for Time Pass.

Interesting article explains how there is always time available for us to do timepass. Look at Wikipedia. Dont you sometimes wonder how come people have so much time to write/edit the content there. Fact is people are interested, and so will do it even if they are not being paid. Contradicts the Carrots and Stick approach we all are used to, whether in school or workplace.

Balls!

Very interesting story here. Apparently in Costa Rica, you can find round stone balls lying on the ground. Gives me the idea, a lot of people surely lost their marbles.

Full story here.

My "designer" desktop

Ok. I have got far too many queries as to how I got the above theme in Windows XP. So here goes:

1. First you will have to patch the uxtheme.dll file to enable non-Microsoft release visual style to be loaded in Windows XP. To do this get the patch here. Download and run the file, follow the instructions ( next, next, Ok, blah blah, yes, ...) and once done reboot your machine.

2. Download a visual style from the internet. A good set of them are here.

3. Unzip the downloaded files and copy them to Windows/Resources/Themes/ folder. Double click the visual style file ( usually you will have a style file along with some folders containing other stuff to make the style working) .

4. The windows display properties page should open up ( the one you use to change wallpaper, screen saver, etc). Click apply and voila, your desktop should look different ( hopefully :P)


Some times when patching the dll file in the first step, Windows irritatingly reminds you that doing this might make it unstable ( as though Windows is stable otherwise!) . This is normal.

I got the wallpaper from here.