play nice, boys, or no treats for anybody. =)

and just to add some levity, if you really really want to know when
your toast is done, here you go:
http://www.iamshadowlord.com/2009/08/she-thinks-my-toaster-is-hot.html
(sure, he has it sending to Twitter, but that is easy enough to swap
out for a Growl notification). i have one of those IO-Bridges as well
and set it up so that my dog can send me a Growl notification when he
wants to come back inside - here is the entire convoluted, glorious
system:

dog wants in >> modified doorbell switch inside a giant push
button;dog pushes button >> sends signal wirelessly to modified
doorbell base station >> base station has been hacked so that instead
of playing a melody, it triggers a circuit >> IO-bridge monitors
circuit for state change >> IO-bridge sends email alert on state
change >> custom app receives email and fires Growl notification

(i also set up a modified version that used an Arduino instead of the
IO-Bridge and serial I/O instead of the email solution. cuts out a few
pieces, but required that the base station/Arduino mechanism be
physically connected to my computer).

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