Life is full of complications.....the best laid plans of mice and men....etc. This was supposed to be up a day or two ago.....and I even managed to do some of the promotions back then, but events conspired against me once more. But here they are, and congratulations to you all.    Apprentice: Uvah - http://uvah.wincustomize.com/ wosgien - http://users.wincustomize.com/1593549/ Nazz3 - http://nazz3.wincustomize.com/ TCAlienWorks - ht...

The old box served well for over half a decade ..... but eventually life was passing me by.... particularly during the FULL boot time being around 10 minutes.... It was [in its day] a fairly decent machine...P4/3.0 in an ASUS P4P800e Deluxe mobo with 2 gig [4x500] ram and eventually about the 'fastest' AGP card still around....a HD3850 with 512 GDDR3...all in an old Lian Li P60, powered by a TruePower 550 Watt PSU. Then I got hacked....ending up as a mule server for email spam [I think] .....

Something I tripped over while doing even sillier things like customizing the GUI of Win 98se running under VMware..... It does quaint things like hide your desktop icons....as/when you want to ignore them.... so you can bask in all that clean, uncluttered wallpaper loveliness. I have it running painlessly in the Win 98 and in the Host XP Pro ....no dramas....give it a gander.... http://www.sillysot.com/

 It's sometimes 'fun' to wrestle with the site whilst it's in 'flux' ...with dev work for the new site the likely culprit for "things-that-now-go-wrong" ....but it's always fun to set and list the new promotees for the month.  [thanks to Island Dog for joining forces in overcoming the latest quirk]. Congratulations, one and all. .. Apprentice: Frankell    Link Sc4rfy     Link   Vervi59     Link Kavel &n...

OK, this time I tripped over a new bug....not an old one with a lovingly placed pet name....no, just a clean, new one....that had me thinking...how do I get around it?..... Island Dog came to the rescue with a helpful hint... "think, you moron".....anyway.... it makes a good excuse for being tardy.  Congratulations to all.....   Apprentice: mickeko   Link Master Apprentice: Wizard1956    Link Pixel-...

It's March, yes, even in back-woods Australia...so it's time for some new promotees to be listed. Congratulations, one and all.... Apprentice: Voidcore   Link amitsaran     Link MouseGoddess   Link     Master Apprentice: Xiandi    Link     Journeyman: Vampothika aka kittymalone   Link Carguy1   Link 2of3   Link

Actually, Island Dog claimed to be under the weather so the Moderator meeting was put off so he could fill his hot water bottle... It's a great bunch of people....all deserving our cheers and wishes, etc.... Apprentice: Domat -   Link Kittycat670 -     Link eddyhaze -   Link mrs starkers -   Link jojo25 -   Link Winstar4 -   Link PiscDong -   Link Master ...

I blame the holidays [gonna have some one day]....so we're a wee bit late this month... [OK, so I was slacking off] Congrats to one and all....   The best is worth waiting for....   Apprentice casualtraveller    Link hallv5     Link matteeo     Link oAREAo    Link thuglifejunior     Link Imstein     Link k10w3     Link ...

To all the wonderful people who make Wincustomize.com a 'great place to be' ....have a Happy New Year.... ...and a safe one, From all the guys and gals at Stardock. [I get in first becase I'm in the 'Twilight Zone' of an alternate universe......the other side of the planet. It's currently 12.04am....2009.....here....

I moderate the Screensaver section.....[all those installs/exe's/scr's can be a pain].... and so many tend to be 'much of a muchness'.... But now and the there'll be one or two that prompt a smile..... ....or something.... ECG https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=670&libid=40  by Ausvet ....I kept watching it.....waiting for a flatline  [now there's a lost opportunity]. Then there's COSMOS https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp...

Again, Island Dog steals the thunder with the new Masters..... .....but I get to announce the ones that really count.... Congratulations, one and all. Apprentice:   DaveBax   http://davebax.wincustomize.com   RobJK   http://robjk.wincustomize.com Philmar83  http://philmar83.wincustomize.com   madcat21   http://madcat21.wincustomize.com   jester382   http://jester382.wincustomize.com  &...

Island Dog has already listed the new Masters for the month...[it's something that's 'done' from within site-access to the coding....so from ten thousand miles away my arms are too short]. Here's the other ones, however, and congrats to all.... Apprentice: Angus1949   http://angus1949.wincustomize.com/ Butch123   http://butch.wincustomize.com/ Goldwing http://goldwing.wincustomize.com/ Master Apprentice: AtomArts   http://atomnet.wincusto...

OK, the Mods have been out and about noticing people....[it's called 'collision avoidance'] and gave me a list of people to promote this month..... Congratulations, one and all.... Apprentice: Cplair  http://cplair.wincustomize.com/ AlMonty  http://montyxp.wincustomize.com/ BK13Garbageman http://bk13garbageman.wincustomize.com/ Master Apprentice: Littleboy http://julien.wincustomize.com/ Journeyman: Skinhit  http://mylogic.wincustomize.com/

This month it's not about quantity but quality so there's 'only' three........ Congratulations, guys....   Apprentice: TomRichter  – Link Pixeleo  – Link   Master Apprentice: Ausvet  – Link

Last night on IRC Larry [koop] mentioned I was currently in the top 4 leading 'bloggers' on JoeUser....[I slipped...looks like 7th now]. I don't blog, though.....or at least I didn't think what I do was/is blogging.....and besides...I'm hardly ever logged into JU, anyway. But there's the rub.  All of Stardock's site-forums are linked....where certain sections/topics have relevance to more than one site.  All the interaction I do on/with Wincustomize.com's forums registers on JU a...