Procrastination: Tuesday Edition

I keep coming to this page, as if I'm expecting a new post to have appeared when I wasn't looking. Maybe I'm just admiring the pretty layout.

This morning I decided that a picture of the new Enterprise was too distracting for a wallpaper, so what did I do? I made a different one. That of course took at least 10 minutes. It's a black background with "DO WORK" repeated in different colors all over the screen. I also put all of my distracting links and their files into a single tab on my bookmarks menu, also labeled "DO WORK." It was slightly successful--well, not really, but at least I felt a twinge of guilt as I clicked on the link to It Goes Ding. That counts for something, right?

This morning I also took the time to change some of my icons to Doctor Who ones that I found online. I changed My Computer to a better TARDIS, my Recycle Bin to a Dalek (they're vaguely bin-shaped, right?) My Video to Jamie's gas mask (because it has eyes) My Music to the sonic screwdriver (because it makes noise) and My Pictures to K-9 (um... because he has flat surfaces?).

You can see the pretty icons here:
http://www.veryicon.com/icons/movie--tv/doctor-who/

Changing the icons of course meant that I had to go look up how to change them, since there is no easy way to do it for most of those. The job entailed going into Control Panel, changing the setting to show hidden files, opening a text box in notepad, finding the location of the icon on my computer... agh, it was complicated, leave it at that. Then of course I decided that the Seal of Rassilon that I had for My Documents wasn't good enough, so I had to remake it. So I had to look up directions on how to make an icon, and that took forever as well. "But worth it" ...I guess.

Yes, I'm that good.

Hm. I think this post needs a random picture. I guess my new Rassilon icon will have to do.
Ain't it purdy? This isn't the icon, obviously; blogger doesn't like .ico format, apparently. In case you didn't know, .ico files have several layers attached to them (so it can appear at different sizes depending on the context). This was the largest size. Also, in icon format the image doesn't have that white background.

Oh yeah. I had my French final exam today. It was swell (or swill? no, it wasn't that bad).