Jim, I hadn't bothered to get MemMaid until your post. Thank you for the suggestion ... what an outright handy utility that is!

I checked the performance and according to MemMaid the Animated Today app processor usage varies between 1.5% to 3.5%. That's not too much of a sacrifice to have a little variety on your today screen, eh?

Plus it makes all the BlackBerry users at work jealous!