Thanks Addison! lol actually in all honesty I'm not as crazy as you'd think especially compared to some of the other UBER talented coders/developers out there that I've met ;-)

I would recommend though that you give this new preview release a try... it doesn't have all the features in there yet, but "out of the box stability" is 99%... the last release of the old version at best I would have said more like %60-70. I learned a lot from that one, and the move to C gave me all the control over the "Random things" that were causing so many issues before. And if you'd prefer to wait I completely understand... I'm just letting you know that this one is pretty "Safe" to try ;-) (others who've got it installed already, back me up here? or tell me I'm completely wrong so I can fix it quickly!)

albright - Yes, that will do it but you have to be careful! The alarms are re-calculated and stored differently between 12hr and 24 hour mode, and just changing the militaryTime setting doesn't do this for you! If you want 24 hour mode, make sure your alarms are turned off/cleared first. Then, make the change, and set your alarms again... they should work properly then. This option will be on the yet-to-be-made clock settings screen, so don't worry it'll be easy as pie again soon!

dormant - Tying into outside signals isn't too difficult to do, as long as they're actually there and happening. For example I could add an option to trigger an alarm when a certain D-Bus signal is broadcast... the bigger issue with that is figuring out how to implement the UI for it and have it make sense for the rest of the clock since everything else is time-based...It sounds more like you're looking for a simple notification system rather than an alarm clock... which I could throw together pretty easily but maybe start a new thread or PM me and let me know how/why it would work...

Thanks all, I've got another little surprise or two up my sleeve for the next preview (hopefully actual release candidate), but it may be a little bit off still as I want to try and get the whole "extras repo" thing figured out on top of all the interface work I still have to get done...