If you don't like the built-ins for date and time, extracting the same information from the date command is relatively easy. It doesn't count dotfiles. The tty command returns the filename of the terminal connected to standard input. If you start netscape from an xterm, this will also be counted. If you want to avoid that, and only count stopped jobs, use jobs -s instead.
Type help jobs for more info on jobs.
11.7 Uptime and Load Current load is taken from the uptime command. In each case, tr or awk or sed is used to remove the undesirable whitespace. I like more info than that, but it's often desirable to limit the length of the directory name, and it makes the most sense to truncate on the left. This will indicate percentage power remaining. This one is weird but cool.