The Timer plug-in is a simple countdown timer and alarm for the Google Desktop Sidebar (GDS). The creation of the Laundry Timer begged for the creation of a general timer.
The fact that someone actually asked for a general timer made me decide that I should go ahead and create one sooner rather than later.
This was relatively simple to do since it builds on the Laundry Timer, but it took a couple of days longer than expected since generalization is always tricky stuff. That plus the fact that I kept adding features.