While Bryan was getting all excited about notibat. I just wanted to point out that the traditional battery applet in GNOME disappears when you plug in. According to the Changelog it has since the 16th of May. The dialog isn't quite as nice, but we can change that before the string freeze.

battstat-applet from gnome-applets 2.7.x
I however, do intend to look at notibat, and have a better look at battfink in the near future. I've had a rewrite of the battery applet on the cards now since January, when I discovered I can't solve a few problematic bugs (such as independantly displaying multiple batteries). I think what I want to do involves HAL, and getting HAL to do the battery lookups for me, so that I can just talk to HAL and have my battery applet work on all supported architectures. Real GNOME 2.10 stuff ;)

Me
Saw a doctor today, paid $45 to be told a lot of things I already knew. Going to get blood chemistry done tomorrow to test thyroid, glucose levels, lipids and just about anything else you can test. So tomorrow I expect to be down about 4 pints of blood.