The notification component of our wiki (plone) isn’t useful enough to bother with, so as a workaround I view its “Recent Changes” page on a regular basis. Well, as regularly as I can remember, which hasn’t been regular enough. So now I use Windows7’s Task Scheduler to open the page for me on a repeating schedule.

This should also be useful for catching regular Internet radio programs.

Steps:

1. Start | All Programs | Admin Tools | Task Scheduler | Create Task (in far right pane)
2. General tab
   • Enter a name you’ll recognize later
3. Triggers tab | New…
   • Enter when the task should occur
4. Actions tab | New…
   • Action = Start a Program
   • Program/script = rundll32
   • Arguments = url.dll,FileProtocolHandler http://yourFavoriteSiteHere.net
5. Conditions tab
   • Start only if the computer is on AC power => off
   • Wake the computer to run this task => on
6. Settings tab
   • Run as soon as possible after scheduled start is missed => on