[SWLUG] Decent alarm program?

[Justin Mitchell]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 02:20, Neil Jones wrote:
> I am looking for something that can pop reminders up on the screen to remind 
> me that a certain time has arrived.
> 
> The sort of thing I am looking for is something that reminds me to check the 
> stove/oven etc to prevent me burning my supper because I am coding away at an 
> interesting problem ans have lost count of the passage of time.

sleep 120;  xmessage "turn the oven off"

that do you ? ;)

you could also try things like the appointments scheduler in evolution.