Save the following in a text file somewhere (I put it in /bin/ and called it twitterwakeup.sh), replacing the stuff in italics with your email, password and cheery waking up message:

#! /bin/sh

curl --user yourname@yourdomain.com:yourpassword -F status="Your cheery waking up message!" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json

(That second bit should all be on one line.)

Make it executable:

sudo chmod u+x /bin/twitter.sh

Install Bernhard Baehr’s handy Sleepwatcher daemon.

Make a file called .wakeup in your home directory, and put the full path to your twitterwakeup.sh script in it.

That’s it.

For the time being, because I’m more interested in integrating my daily linking and weblogging, rather than providing pointers to what other folk are linking to on similar topics, I’ve decided to have the links lead to my own tags instead of the tag directories at del.icio.us which track linking by all users. I might change this, though - it seems a little rude to incorporate del.icio.us like this without acknowledging the social aspect of the service.

If you’d like to do the same, and can’t be bothered fiddling with Ben’s template code, here’s the version I’m using on Individual Entry Archive and Main Index templates (you’ll also need Brad Choate’s handy MTPerlscript for this to work).

<MTPerlScript package="deliciouslinks">
my $keywords="<MTEntryKeywords>";
if ($keywords eq "") {
print "<!-- No Del.icio.us Tags to print out //-->";
} else { my @splitkeywords = split(/ /, $keywords); my $splitkeyword;
print 'Related Linking: ';
foreach $splitkeyword (@splitkeywords) { print '<a href="'."http://del.icio.us/username/
$splitkeyword".'">'."$split_keyword".'</a> ';
}
}
</MTPerlScript>