Filed under: Productivity, Web services
A few days later, a better notifier: Ding, It's Up
I previously commented that it was nice that Notify Me keeps things simple, even though it could have added more features, or incorporated the functionality of Down For Everyone Just Me. I guess the creators of Ding, It's Up are basically sticking their tongues out at me, because they've done just that, and it's actually pretty neat. Just don't use it to sign up to receive updates by Twitter about when Twitter is down. You might want to use Is Twitter Down? for that.
UPDATE: No more Notify Me When It's Up! Now the URL just redirects to Ding. Thanks, Sanjay.
If you have multiple web-mail accounts, it can sometimes be a hassle to keep track of them all. Although
notifier applications exist for many of them, most are not able to monitor multiple accounts, and almost none can
monitor accounts from more than one service. 
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
