Earlier this morning?

It might be because I'm an ops guy, but I use Cron to schedule things on a regular basis, even in my personal work.

It's pretty crazy good at what it does. Being able to say "Filter my email every 5 minutes", is awesome.

  */5 * * * /usr/local/bin/filter-email.sh

I use it to this day to keep my dynamic DNS records up to date. I also use it daily, although not explicitly, when the various Debian cron jobs run. Logrotate, that kind of thing.

It's the idea that all this shit should be rolled into init, the goddamn boot process, that revolts me.

On non-OS X and non-Windows OSes? Probably daily. Heck, I even use cron (via Cygwin) on my Windows box at work.

cron is used on almost every production linux/BSD box on my team, and I'm sure there are many others who are similar.

Thursday.