# My Desktop

I like looking at people’s desktops. [Olivia Ball](http://oxy.gen.nz/olivia/)
has some [in this directory](http://oxy.gen.nz/images/desktops/).

At 1:1 scale, here’s my [NW “Work” desk](/lately/images/2000-08-22_nw.png),
which here features my “kick-ass” mail reader ([nmh](http://www.mhost.com/nmh/))
and some python code, my [NE “Netscape” desk](/lately/images/2000-08-22_ne.png),
and my [SW “Misc1” desk](2000-08-22_sw.png), which features
[jed](http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jed.html) editing the XML source of my home
page. I don’t currently have anything on my SE “Misc2” desk.

These are all in .png format and between 80k and 150k. Netscape displays .png
files incorrectly; here’s my [NW](/lately/images/2000-08-22_nw_sm.jpg),
[NE](/lately/images/2000-08-22_ne_sm.jpg) and
[SW](/lately/images/2000-08-22_sw_sm.jpg) at 1:2 scale and in .jpg format.
(30k-50k.)

I’m running [Helix Code Gnome](http://www.helixcode.com/desktop/) on RedHat 6.2.
The background (which you can’t really see) is a shot of the [stairs to an
apartment building in Paris](http://www.monickels.com/07-22-00.shtml). I
randomly scatter URLs I might want to read sometime, but not now, on the
desktop. The theme is
[DragDome](http://sawmill.themes.org/themes.phtml?themeid=953061837).
[bash](http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html) is my shell and
[slrn](http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slrn.html) is my newsreader.