[H-GEN] In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree ...

Rob Kearey r.kearey at mailbox.uq.edu.au
Mon Oct 26 00:05:32 EST 1998


Last Thursday night/Friday, I was Very Ill Indeed. As I lay in bed, my
fever'd dreams presented for me an imaginary X desktop application.

This wee program had a mission - it grabbed an image from a webcam
somewhere, scaled it as necessary, and set it as the background for the
desktop. It then lathered, rinsed and repeated as the image was
refreshed.

First person to write such a program gets the movie right to my /other/
dream.

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