The following notes are for the Gearhead column “All at sea with Xcelsius”:
We found several online references to “Short Timers Clock” and it appears to be applied specifically to countdowns and more commonly to countdowns to retirement. We found no etymology of the phrase.
Corporate or enterprise dashboards are huge business now. See Wikipedia’s discussion of digital dashboards for a good background as well as the clumsily named blog The Dashboard Spy Blog on Enterprise Dashboards (guys, what were you thinking?).
Business Objects’ Crystal Xcelsius has a gallery of very good dashboard examples. Also check out their Free Business Widgets for salesforce.com.
And join the Gibbs Irregulars.
