Winamp skins!
May. 3rd, 2008 01:09 pm
I waited three months after finishing them to get around to doing the uploading, but there are two new skins at Happy Phantom. They're nothing special, but they exist! I can't post it to the mailing list, because my Yahoo login is dead.
Looking over the site, there are some changes I should make - like trimming the hostility from the FAQ, because none of the email addresses in the readmes and whatnot work anymore, so I no longer get questions from people who want to use my Winamp skins on Windows Media Player or don't know how to save files. But whatever. I'm lazy. I may actually finish a Twelve Kingdoms skin soonish; I have a research paper coming up and skinning is a great way to procrastinate. You're at the computer, rather than looking at the TV/ a book/ the fridge/ your cat. You can poke at your work while working on a skin, so you can tell yourself you're not really procrastinating. It doesn't have the narcotic effect of, say, Spider Solitaire; you may spend a lot of time on it, but you aren't surprised when you notice hours have passed. And you actually get something done, even if it's not the right thing! Not for nothing was my most active skinning period back when I was in college.
Looking over the site, there are some changes I should make - like trimming the hostility from the FAQ, because none of the email addresses in the readmes and whatnot work anymore, so I no longer get questions from people who want to use my Winamp skins on Windows Media Player or don't know how to save files. But whatever. I'm lazy. I may actually finish a Twelve Kingdoms skin soonish; I have a research paper coming up and skinning is a great way to procrastinate. You're at the computer, rather than looking at the TV/ a book/ the fridge/ your cat. You can poke at your work while working on a skin, so you can tell yourself you're not really procrastinating. It doesn't have the narcotic effect of, say, Spider Solitaire; you may spend a lot of time on it, but you aren't surprised when you notice hours have passed. And you actually get something done, even if it's not the right thing! Not for nothing was my most active skinning period back when I was in college.
