Dan Leone tagged me to post a screen capture of my desktop. Well he showed me his, so I’ll show him mine:
Hardly the most thrilling of images I admit. But I rarely pass over the opportunity to talk about myself here on the blog, so I shall give you the guided tour.
On the bottom left you will notice a stack of pdf files which contain swimming pool timetables. I have a friend that used to work as a lifeguard at a local baths. He told me that they only change the water once every six months. Using my own behavior as a child as a rough guide, I estimate that by around the fifth month the pool is approximately 68% child urine. Despite this knowledge we actually go swimming quite a bit.
On the bottom right you will see a stray folder of photos from our recent trip to Blackpool which I haven’t got round to filing properly yet. My archiving system consists of shoving all the unsorted and unedited photos onto an external hard drive once every couple of months or so. I have this vague notion that I will go through it and sort them all properly at some mystical point in the future when I “have more time”. I intend to do this right after I’ve mended all the holes in my socks and sorted out the “bits and bobs” drawer in the kitchen.
And finally, hovering in the left of center is my iChat window, ever optimistically open just in case someone lowers themselves to IM me. Incidentally any of the regular readers is more than welcome to add me to their contact lists should they see fit. I am on AIM and my username is dghughes28 (yes I know giving that out is almost a direct contradiction to my previous statements about becoming more anonymous; but I want to feel popular damnit).
For anyone who wants to replicate my magnificent taste in desktop wallpaper, you can find a lot of great ones here.
So now for the tags:
- Paul. Because he was whittering on about how great his computer was in the pub the other night.
- Lee. Because I want to settle a bet with myself surrounding whether he has Aquaman or Captain Kirk wallpaper
- Mr Fabulous. Because I dread to think (and like to aim high on occasion).
- Jeff. Because I know he’s always up for a good meme.
- Henry. Because I still owe him some questions and feel very guilty.
And of course you, if you fancy it. Here is the cut an paste instructions should you need a guide:
Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. You can do a screen capture by:
On a PC
- Going to your desktop and pressing the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key).
- Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and do a Paste (CTRL + V).
- If you wish, you can “edit†the image, before saving it.
On a Mac:
- Open Grab (located in /Applications/Utilities).
- Choose Capture > Screen.
- When the Screen Grab dialog opens, click outside that window.
on Oct 19th, 2007 at 12:05 am
Oh my… I’m not sure my desktop is blogworthy, but I guess that’s the point now isn’t it.
Lucky(?) for you I’m spending all my time working on you 2-year anniversary post so I don’t have anything else queued up for now, so I’ll probably play along later this week.
on Oct 19th, 2007 at 3:53 am
Dan -
I just posted my desktop today…
Good stuff…loved your urine analysis :)
Bradley
The Egel Nest
on Oct 19th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
With some PCs, you have to hit Ctrl-Print Screen, and then Paste.
I posted my desktop back when I posted pictures of my desk. It was inadvertent, but when you have a 30″ widescreen monitor (heheheh), the desktop dominates the entire desk.
on Oct 19th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Mac shortcut: Shift Apple 3 - it saves a PNG of your screen(s) to your desktop!
Here are my desktops: http://oliwalker.co.uk/photo/other/random/desktop.jpg.html
You’ll notice that there’s far too much on it, leaving an organisational structure that’s about as organised as I am. Some of the icons have rather dubious titles, but rest assured the contents aren’t quite as dodgy.
The folder “desktop stuff” contains all the files that I’ll sort out one day. Other folders have similarly optimistic titles, and some are just factual and in the way.
on Oct 19th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Oh, and you don’t want to see my desk. It’s more cluttered than my desktop.
Every so often though, I have a massive clear-up of both, filling both the virtual and real rubbish/recycle bins.
on Oct 19th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
OK - you asked and you shall receive. My post is up…
on Oct 19th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
I detect a smidgen of reluctance in your post Jeff :)
on Oct 20th, 2007 at 8:30 am
[...] Dan has been watching 80s computer films too much lately and thought that he could trick some of his fellow bloggers by making up a meme about taking a screen shot of your desktop in the hopes that he will be able to glean some way to access our systems and take over the world. [...]
on Oct 20th, 2007 at 8:32 am
You can find my desktop now showing on Quit Your Day Job. The answer was Kirk’ish.
on Oct 20th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Hey Dan,
I put up my screen capture as soon as I realized I had been tagged today, despite the fact that what I was doing was slightly embarrassing.
Later,
Henry
on Oct 21st, 2007 at 1:01 am
Every time I see this desktop meme, I feel so unworthy. Mine is so boring, but I love yours.