http://blog.garethj.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:37:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.garethj.com/2008/04/am-i-online/ http://blog.garethj.com/2008/04/am-i-online/#comments Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:36:46 +0000 gareth http://blog.garethj.com/?p=34 Continue reading →]]> I’ve recently changed my broadband provider and wondered how reliable they’d be. I figured I needed a way for my house to let me know whenever the connection had dropped and for how long for etc. Remembering my post a little while ago about
publishing to Twitter about local Bluetooth devices, I thought I could do something similar. So now I’ve written a little script (twitter-netcheck) that notices whenever my internet connection is dropped and then publishes to Twitter whenever it comes back. It also sends me a direct message so I get alerted by SMS or IM immediately. Quite handy I think – try it out for yourself

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