sleep for a minute? i think normally that would be bad. I would expect sleep for 1 sec maybe (1000 ms).

Not sure about python but in most languages sleeping for 60 seconds would mean the app would become unresponsive for a whole minute... would look locked up if you tried killing or switching tasks.

Look forward to using your app!

Here are some flash-based clocks you can download and use locally... some are widescreen and some even have alarms and only a few simple ones dont max out the cpu... but they are cool :

http://edmullen.net/fclock.html (flash on nokia is buggy so your likely to crash going -between- pages.. maybe bookmark before you start trying them out... each is stable on its own just when entering/leaving the pages it may crash... must be quirk to n770/800 flash plugin.

Scroll down to the -second- list which points directly to the SWF files then if you like you can save it.

Of those clocks i like these the most :
http://edmullen.net/flash/7a.swf
http://edmullen.net/flash/clock1.swf
http://edmullen.net/flash/clock12.swf