The bad news is I've hit a bit of a wall in terms of long term stability with my existing WiFi module. I've addressed issue after issue gradually improving stability of the WiFi stack and my own code. But in the end I just can't get it to stay alive long enough. Even a few days of stability isn't good enough for an Alarm Clock that I'd be relying on to get me to work on time. I could pursue the issues further into the WiFi stack, but it would take a fairly big time investment. Since the stack and hardware are no longer supported I'd be investing all of this time into what is essentially dead hardware. If I ever wanted to upgrade or make another one of these clocks, all of this time would be wasted since I couldn't buy another one of these WiFi modules.
The good news however is there is a ray of hope! Truly excellent news out of Maker fair: Arduino (the company) announced several new Arduino's (the micro-controller) which is great and all, but most excellently, they announced an official Arduino WiFi shield! The library and hardware will be officially supported going forward! They are due to release some time in October, so my project is stalled until I can get my hands on one of these, but this is truly great news for all of my projects which usually have wireless connectivity at their heart
