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Everybody needs a personal "status" page
Merlin Mann | Oct 19 2005
Lots of sites have status pages. I wish more people had them.
Yeah, status pages for people should be more popular, and I also wish they were a bit easier to make and maintain. It would be a nifty way to display information like:
I've long had a Lazy Web wish for a little perl script that could That way you could maintain a bunch of easy lists and the script does all the building and posting automagically. You could fake this with a blogging tool, but I like the idea of having it all updated in the background. Got a good personal status page? Seen one you liked? What would you post on yours? Have a fast trick for helping noobs make and post status points to the interweb? Care to pick up my Lazy Web gauntlet? 72 Comments
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 My brother sort of has...Submitted by Kevin (not verified) on October 20, 2005 - 4:14pm.
My brother sort of has a status page. Basically it's a wordpress blog that creates a new entry every time he sets an away message in aim. I used twisted and wrote an aim bot in python, that watches for when he goes away, and then posts a new entry to the blog. It's called, fittingly enough, Tom is Away. If there is any interest in the code, I'd be happy to share it. It is still in the simplest thing that could possibly work stage, and occasionally I need to log into my server and restart it because it will disconnect. But has worked since November 2004, which is apparently 3760 away messages. » POSTED IN:
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