{"id":85,"date":"2007-09-21T21:52:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T19:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/index.php\/2007\/09\/21\/countdown-timers-and-traditions\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T20:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:36:05","slug":"countdown-timers-and-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/2007\/09\/21\/countdown-timers-and-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown timers and traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 (Edit: 2011, and now implemented using jQuery), but the principle is the same.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>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.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/2007\/09\/21\/countdown-timers-and-traditions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brakkee.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}