Today, I took a few minutes to program a patch that would enable the clock to save the alarm settings into EEPROM, enabling them to survive power outages. When the time came to flash the new firmware into the clock's memory, I encountered a bad surprise: it didn't work, my usbasp programmer gave me an error message saying that the target wasn't responding. Not wanting to waste a $15 board, I attempted a simple repair: I soldered a wire across the trace and secured it in place with hot glue (which doesn't seem to corrode things).