Re: Harvey Potter and the Pensioner's New Astra-van (was Re: OT: Foundation (was other stuff too) )

mpvorkosigan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

So, Amy, Vince, everybody. What's your current wallpaper? Right now, in
memory of Andrew Wyeth, it's "Christina's World". In a few days, it'll
change.

At the moment, it's a photo I took from the window of my apartment on Boxing
Day in Fuengirola (Spain): a small fishing boat, silhouetted in the band of
sunlight reflected on the ocean.

That's likely to change the next time I either take a photograph I like
enough to put on the desktop, or perhaps see one somewhere.

The previous one was a small picture of some freak weather/cloud formations
- someone posted a link to it on a news site (possibly on this group, I
forget!) and I liked the photo. It was only small, but I let Windows stretch
it, and that actually worked out quite well; the result looked quite good -
nothing like a photo, but a good wallpaper regardless.

On my other computer (an ARM based computer running an operating system
called RISC OS), there is nothing atm, only a textured backdrop.
Unfortunately, the software I ran on its predecessor doesn't work on it -
but what it used to do was download NASA's picture of the day, so I had a
fresh picture every day.

There's software out there do do similar for Windows boxes, and probably
other OS's as well - but those I've seen expect the changing photo to be in
a fixed location/with a fixed name. The beauty of that software was that it
would download a holding page, scan it for a certain text sequence in the
html, then use the picture found immediately after that. So, provided the
web page was in a fixed location and its layout/structure didn't change, the
picture could be anywhere.

I should be able to write something to do that myself. Maybe one day.

--
Vince M Hudd
Soft Rock Software

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