Microsoft wins again

You can say whatever you want about Evil Bill and his Empire, but I've found that quite often when I decide there's some cute thing I want to do, they've already done it. Today, I was thinking it would be nice to automate the updates of my EVE-Online Alliance Maps, and that it also would be nice to see the weather radar every so often. So, I did a google search for a tool that would sit in the taskbar, using very little resources, and just change my wallpaper every so often. A search on
"windows xp desktop image rotation taskbar" yielded Winter Wallpaper Changer for Windows XP.

Now, no matter HOW much you hate microsoft, how can you complain about that? It sits in the taskbar using 10K of RAM and wakes up every 30 minutes (by default) and picks a random image file from a directory tree you specify, and blats that to your desktop wallpaper. It even allows for daily overrides by making subdirectories with names like "July_27". Pair this with a cron job on my server to fetch the radar maps every 10 minutes, and I'm done!