Slide show screen saver

All these years I’ve used a black screen saver.

Screen savers really don’t do anything any more. Few screens have phosphors to save. And, why burn juice? Just hit the power on the monitors and walk away.

But, for odd reasons, the other day I put some pictures from my picture page on a screen saver cycle. It was fun to see them! All sorts of warm feelings. It’d been a long time since seeing some of the pictures. And most reminded me of when and where they were taken. Which was kinda nice.

So, to celebrate the good times, I whipped up a script to extract the URLs and other information for each of the pictures and a bit of Javascript to cycle through them. Here’s the result:


View the page source to get the idea.