On two separate occasions he did manage to conjure up outfielders from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, but neither of them would agree to go out and change people’s wallpaper. Unfortunately, though, the Scripting Guy who writes this column could never quite figure out how to conjure up a heavenly angel. Talk about making an impression on your users, eh? Imagine how cool that would be: someone wants to change their desktop wallpaper, and an angel comes down from heaven and makes the change for them.

That’s all well and good, but what really caught the Scripting Guy’s attention was Johannes’ system for communicating by having angels pass messages from one person to another. Recently this Scripting Guy read about Johannes Trithemius, a Benedictine monk from the 1400s who was one of the fathers of modern cryptography. You know, when the Scripting Guy who writes this column first sat down to tackle this problem he thought he had a really cool solution for you.

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the desktop wallpaper to one of six pre-defined selections?

January 2017 desktop wallpaper chic