Wallpaper clock screenlet

I’m a regular visitor of VladStudio’s website, run by Vlad Gerasimov, a digital artist. It is a spot to find a lot of beautiful wallpapers. Recently, he began making wallpaper clocks – dynamic wallpapers that show date, hour, minute and stuff… I liked the idea, but I wasn’t able to use them on my system, as there was a Windows-only program for it.

I checked out his site last night and was surprised when I saw that there is a Wallpaper clock screenlet for Linux (download).

This screenlet requires Screenlets software to be installed. Once that is done, the screenlet needs to be unpacked to ~/.screenlets/ directory, or /usr/local/share/screenlets/ (this way it will be accessible to every user on the system). New wallpaper clocks are added by unpacking .wcz archive to ~/.screenlets/WallpaperClock/wallpapers/, or /usr/local/share/screenlets/WallpaperClock/wallpapers/ (depending on the place where the screenlet is located).

Well, I hope this will be useful . Enjoy…

Edit: This screenlet depends on python-imaging package.

Belgrade’s idiots :)

Few days ago I needed to get to the Belgrade’s Western gate. I was late, so I took a cab. When I said to the driver to take me there he responded with “To the two idiots?”

So, this will be a short post about three Belgrade’s high-rise buildings… There is a saying that someone is “standing alone like an idiot”. That’s why people call these buildings “idiots” . All of them have ~30 stories and they’re surrounded with small buildings.

In incremental order …

• The two idiots, the Genex tower, or Western city gate, which is already mentioned. It is a complex of two buildings,  which are connected at the top. It is located next to the E-75 highway, on the western Belgrade entrance. It looks like the vehicle is going to go between the two buildings whe n approaching Belgrade, hence the “gate” part . A little about it, mostly from the article on Wikipedia.
  It was designed by Mihajlo Mitrović in 1977 in the brutalist style. It is 115 meters tall, which makes it the second tallest high-rise building. The first is the Ušće tower. There is a restaurant at the top of the tower, which used to revolve. It would make a full round in about an hour. As far as I know it’s closed right now *sighs*, though there are plans to open it again.
• The three idiots, Rudo buildings, or Eastern city gate is located near the E-75 highway, on the eastern Belgrade entrance. It is one of the first Belgrade’s marks that visitors see when approaching the city.
• The five idiots is a group of five high-rise residential buildings, located on the Banjica, which is in the southern part of Belgrade. I couldn’t find a picture of them : (… I’ll see to make one and update the post.

Well, that’s it. It’s not that there are no other high-rises in Belgrade, it’s just that I’ve heard people calling these three complexes idiots …