Hello hankssong, You can alert yourself in many methods: * Open a message dialog - Use Tkinter or other GUI toolkit (such as wxPython) * Write yourself an email - Use email + smtplib library modules * Provide an RSS feed and read it - Use HTTPServer library * Write yourself an instant message - see msnpy and other libraries
HTH, Miki http://pythonwise.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
