When motivation for working on your current code base fades

Michael Feathers writes about how to stay motivated when working with the Lame Duck Code Base; a code base nobody really want to touch because it's not going to be used for some reason.

If nobody else care about the code base, find some way to make it matter to you! If it is a messy legacy system, use it as way to gain experience handeling its intricacies. Find a way to learn something while working on the project.

Anyways; Michael Feathers says it better. I really like the points he is making.

Finally an attractive desktop background.

I have never been a fan of desktop backgrounds. It has never really mattered to me what the desktop looked like. A few minutes ago I was made aware of this really, REALLY cool desktop background program that regularly updates the background with an image of the earth, with weather and daylight. It's even got city lights in the night areas! Finally a desktop background to my taste! :) Check it out