I just got around to putting Conky on my laptop, which I installed Ubuntu Lucid sometime this Spring. In the past, I have toyed around with Conky and had it on most of my Ubuntu installations. This time I wanted to go with a little bit different design and add some useful features like external and internal ip address and temperatures. Also my old Conky was a little buggy on things like weather when I didn't have an internet connection.
Enter Conky-Colors. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/CONKY-colors?content=92328