Here's something that might be useful:
http://www.pfspear.net/projects/gcalcron
It basically lets you point Bubba at a Google Calendar account and use that to drive console commands.
So if you wanted to schedule a download, just add a Google Calendar entry along the lines of wget stuff, and Bubba will shcedule the download for that time.
Certainly doesn't do anything remote shell and cron can't, but might provide a friendlier front end for controlling Bubba remotely.
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