Rainmeter and Rainlendar

I was looking for a replacement for my old windows calendar program Windates, and I found Rainlendar (and also Rainmeter too - download at Softpedia).

The key points I was looking for in a Calendar program were that a) it should run on Windows and Linux, b) have pop-up / sound alarms (i.e. run in the task bar) and c) be customisable. I tried Sunbird, but at version 0.3 something it just just a little buggy and unrefined for me.

Rainlendar seemed to have the minimal requirements, and it's skinable as well. In fact, there seem to be a million and one skins out there for the thing. It's also free (for the "lite" version, but I don't use a Microsoft mail client or online calendars anyway) and open source, though I don't quite see the same level of activity on it as say, Firefox.

Rainmeter seems to have been the project that led to Rainlendar, though the two only seem to share the idea of skins between them (and Rainmeter seems to have a lot of skins too). Rainmeter is a customizable performance meter for Windows, which displays CPU load, memory utilization, disk space, network traffic, time and a variety of other things. I only downloaded and installed it as I was curious after seeing so many skins for it. My computer is slow enough without an extra monitor running in the background, but it "looks fun".

Queer Stuff Vol 1 Complete

With the conversion and uploading of the Self Esteem instalment, I've completed my recasting of Laura Seabrook's Queer Stuff, Vol 1.

Wasn't exactly sure what category to put this in Web Comics Nation so I chose Non Fiction, but it could perhaps have gone into Other, as both are technically correct. All I have to do now is catch up with two pages for Tales of the Galli and I'll be happy.