Everybody needs a personal "status" page

Lots of sites have status pages. I wish more people had them.

• My friend, Leslie, used to do an excellent one that included updates on her beverages, hair, and stress level
• My pal, Jay, posts his monthly expenses and to-dos
• I manually update a stripped-down status that shows roughly how busy I am

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:

• current projects
• number of unanswered inbox emails
• iTunes/Last.fm “Now Playing”
• Netflix queue
• amount spent this month on lattes
• current crush
• current nemesis

I’ve long had a Lazy Web wish for a little perl script that could cat all the txt files in a directory into a Markdown-styled HTML page (that you could then skin with CSS).

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?