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Written by Erik Brakkee
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It al started back in 1995 when I was counting down for defending my PhD Thesis. Working on HPUX I modified XDaliclock, a C program for the X windows system to countdown in seconds to the moment supreme. Ever since that time I have been using a countdown timer whenever I am going to switch jobs. It has been modernized a little over time and is now a Java applet, but the principle is the same. The countdown timer has become a tradition or even a ritual that I cannot do without. It is like a public statement that I am going to start something new very soon, which is so important that it is worth counting down to in seconds.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 21 September 2007 )
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Hey mister Erik,
OoOoOoOh, this sounds so mysterious that even the great Arthur Conan Doyle (eat your hart out Sherlock) himself, could probably not conjure up a scenario like this....;)
Anyway...it SOUNDS important and that's what counts I guess ;))
Posted by Edwin, on September 28, 2007 at 11:22
You are right in saying that it counts. Indeed, this is the primary purpose of the countdown timer.
Posted by Erik Brakkee, on September 28, 2007 at 11:39
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