#13 everybody is always late and needs "elapsed time"

[Anonymous]

It whistles, it rings, it whatevers, and we are late
in getting to it, and the tea brews on, etc., and we
wonder "how long?", "is it soup yet?", "can I use it
to take the hair off my dog's legs?"
Idle sits the timer, taking up real estate, it's
work done. Surely we can put it to some noble purpose.
Indeed! "How much overcooked is the tea?" It counted
down in black - now let it count up in red.

And why can't I just set the damned thing on my
desktop, without having to retrieve it from my systray?

in any event, thanx for all the cleverness. we will
meet in geek heaven, the virtual paradise of the
virtuous somewhere far from this vale of travail

- alanalan@verizon.net