---
title: "Does your desktop look cool/geeky these days? You could win some prizes."
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/17/does-your-desktop-look-coolgeeky-these-days-you-could-win-so.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/17/does-your-desktop-look-coolgeeky-these-days-you-could-win-so.html"
published: "2006-07-17T23:32:00"
updated: "2006-07-17T23:32:00"
tags: ["Community News"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "There are some seriously cool desktops being posted over at Http://desktops.osherove.com How about you get over there and submit your cool, amazingly geeky desktop?"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Does your desktop look cool/geeky these days? You could win some prizes.

By Roy Osherove July 17, 2006 In [Community News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community-news)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 17, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

There are some seriously cool desktops being posted over at [Http://desktops.osherove.com](http://desktops.osherove.com/)

How about you get over there and submit your cool, amazingly geeky desktop?

## More in Community News

[All posts in Community News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community-news)

- Jul 21, 2006

    ### [Microsoft's SharePoint treats FireFox as 2nd class citizen](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/21/microsofts-sharepoint-treats-firefox-as-2nd-class-citizen.html)

- Jul 19, 2006

    ### [Microsoft Acquires Winternals (a.k.a SysInternals) Software](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/19/microsoft-acquires-winternals-aka-sysinternals-software.html)

- Jul 17, 2006

    ### [See you at Tech-Ed Europe!](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/17/see-you-at-tech-ed-europe.html)

- Jul 15, 2006

    ### [Some updates about the desktop screenshot contest](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/15/some-updates-about-the-desktop-screenshot-contest.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/