I have been working on and off on the resource clock, and it can now be found at here. Thanks for the feedback and suggestions; I'll try to incorporate them when I can next sit down and work on it.

Yes, I did defend successfully, and want to thank Prof. Buxton, who taught the first class I told in the MA back in 1994, for livening things up with his critical questions about international development. As Iain said, I'm now a "professional," and not just any sort of professional, but an "XML professional."