Has anyone been able to read values from the accelerometer?  All the code samples here seem to relate to the interupt function.  I am looking for a way to detect when the accelerometer stops moving and thought reading the values to check that they have not changed might be the way to go. 

Is it possible to count hardware event instances?  For example an accelerometer interrupt or reed switch is triggered, some logic is executed and the event ends.  I am wanting to know how many times this occurs over a given time period.  I tried to create a new list and add a counter byte to a list but you can only do this within the event so the next time the event occurs it just creates a new list.