Mike, I don’t use butter, so if I’m toast… so be it. No I didn’t see the Register’s article, but I did know of the Google Docs outage as it was happening. See me latest post.

BTW, I’ve taken a deeper look at MeeTimer this morning. I noticed that the timer had stopped while I was reading a web page. After some testing, I realized that it is stopping by itself after around 30 seconds of no mouse or keyboard activity, so you can walk away from the browser and it won’t count all of the time.

CloudFiend Kevin, did you see this?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/08/docs_and_spreadsheets_goes_down/

OK, I just this moment added it. If it really screws things up, you’re toast, Fiend Kevin! Toast *without* butter! I am so cruel.

Mike, I don’t see a noticeable performance hit, but of course, every system is different based on hardware specs, configuration, etc… If you’re using Firefox, give MeeTimer a try; if you see major performance lag, you can easily disable or remove the extension.

Jonathan, this works well with multiple tabs. MeeTimer doesn’t keep the clock ticking on multiple tabs when you’re not looking at a tab. It keeps separate timers for each tab and the clock only moves on the active, open tab. In the example you gave, it would clock the full hour you were away UNLESS you minimized the browser before walking away.

Does this work if you’ve got multiple tabs open? What if I have a tab open and walk away from the PC for an hour?

This is interesting but I wonder what kind of performance hit my PC will take? Running Avast! already slows it and a frikkin XP update MS slipped to my PC like a mickey has gobbled up RAM and more cycles too.