What's on your desktop?

[lukeottevanger]

Very lovely, though a bit distracting.

Even the thumbnail "could cause cardiac arrest in a yak" (Woody Allen)...

That may well be the deceased yak in question that she's reclining on, in fact.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

That may well be the deceased yak in question that she's reclining on, in fact.

[ezodisy]

This is my current desktop, a picture of Mrs. Rock: click on thumbnail for full size image:

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Sarge

What can you say about Mrs. Rock? Most likely nothing, because her husband's some army guy who would give you a right beating if you did  What's the deal with that "Sarge" icon at the top with a picture of Wonderwoman? (uh no, I didn't zoom in on Mrs. Rock  ).

[mahler10th]

Well Sarge, very nice indeed, but I am more iterested in this snapshot of your desktop.  What is it you're using to catalogue your discs?  Is that MS Access or what?

[lukeottevanger]

Ah, the classical music fan! 'Never mind the beautiful woman, let me see the filing system she adorns......' 

[Sergeant Rock]

What's the deal with that "Sarge" icon at the top with a picture of Wonderwoman? (uh no, I didn't zoom in on Mrs. Rock   ).

It's the folder Vista automatically creates that houses pictures, music, video, documents etc. It automatically assigns the account administrator name: in this case, Sarge. By the way, Wonderwoman is also Mrs. Rock



Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Well Sarge, very nice indeed, but I am more iterested in this snapshot of your desktop.  What is it you're using to catalogue your discs?  Is that MS Access or what?

I just use MS Works. It's simple; easy to edit; easy to move things around; easy to copy fields. Here's what it looks like (click on thumbnail):




Sarge

[lukeottevanger]

I just use MS Works. It's simple; easy to edit; easy to move things around; easy to copy fields. Here's what it looks like (click on thumbnail):




Sarge

On behalf of mahler10th - phwoar!!! That's more like it!!

[Sergeant Rock]

Even the thumbnail "could cause cardiac arrest in a yak" (Woody Allen)...

I'll pass on the compliment 

That may well be the deceased yak in question that she's reclining on, in fact.

Sarge

[Brian]

Imagine if your girlfriend dumped you for a yak. 

[mahler10th]

On behalf of mahler10th - phwoar!!! That's more like it!!

  Lol.  That really got me.

Thanks Sarge.  I am looking for Cataloging software, tried just about everything but none to my entire satisfaction, hence the reason for my enquiry.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Severe questions coming up. 

[ ] Is that Mrs. Rock in the seventies?
[ ] Is this the Mr. and Mrs. Rock forum?

( ) Mrs. Rocks!
( ) Rocky Horror!

[drogulus]

     

[lukeottevanger]

Except your children - these are mine on my desktop, albeit a photo taken 18 months or so ago. The Boy's angelic curly locks have since been removed, I'm afraid.

...since when I've changed to another picture of the kids, though also quite an old one, still including the angel curls. I love this photo, the light and the movement in it, but no one else seems that impressed by it (my wife, who took it, doesn't like it much). Ah well, not everyone can have my exquisite taste, I suppose:

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

If it's any consolation, Luke, I like it, too. A classic seaside scene, I think.

[lukeottevanger]

Well, I knew you had exquisite taste, too.

More or less on the part of the coast from where RVW collected the songs for his Norfolk Rhapsody, FWIW.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Well, I knew you had exquisite taste, too.

More or less on the part of the coast from where RVW collected the songs for his Norfolk Rhapsody, FWIW.

King's Lynn.

[lukeottevanger]

That's where my wife was born (and my children too) and where my in laws still live; VW collected the songs in villages around Lynn. This photo was taken further around the coast, though.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

That's where my wife was born (and my children too) and where my in laws still live; VW collected the songs in villages around Lynn. This photo was taken further around the coast, though.

Interesting info! I have never been to Norfolk - is the landscape as flat, in a rather Dutch way, as I imagine it to be, what with those fens... ?

[lukeottevanger]

Interesting info! I have never been to Norfolk - is the landscape as flat, in a rather Dutch way, as I imagine it to be, what with those fens... ?

Well, yes, fenland is ultra-flat and Dutch-looking. Only one corner of Norfolk is fen, mind you - most of the fen is in the intersection of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire - but none of the county is what you'd call 'hilly'! In fact, it was the Dutch who created much of fen landscape as it exists today, as their expertise in land-drainage was called upon to make the land suitable for farming. It takes some getting used to, but one grows to find beauty in it. As Germaine Greer said of it (I paraphrase), it's not a landscape that cossets you, it's one that doesn't make concessions, and there's something awe-inspiring in that. I live in a Norfolk village that is on the border with Suffolk and not far from Cambridgeshire either - the fen begins a mile from my house and goes on uninterrupted for maybe 40 or more miles.

Some shots of my village and of the Little Ouse just outside the village, where the fen starts, from the village website. Judge for yourself how Dutch it looks!