[gopherhockey]

I originally requested this hack, and meteore was really cool about offering his expertise.

I run a web site for a large mountain biking organization in Minnesota. Due to the muddy conditions we can sometimes have with rain (or spring and winter conditions) - we have the need to post trail conditions to our fellow bikers. This helps us keep riders off the trails when they are wet - warn people not to drive long distances only to find a muddy trail etc.

The more I thought about my "special" need, the more I felt there was room for other systems to use this... a few examples might be things like information services use (system outages/status) - snowmobile or ski conditions... surfing (?) - anything that requires a "one page" view of the status of a number of different items..

You can get real creative with this kind of hack, our use was very specific and I thank meteore for his efforts. I'm clicking install - you can come see it in action on my site - I'll post a link soon.