Are You a Loser?
Are You Pathetic?
Are you such a no-life failure that you need to be informed as soon as some SL friend of yours logs on, so you can go and join him/her in-world?
Yeah, me too. So here's a simple device for watching for someone to log on. Just put the person's name on the first line of the notecard in the object (the rest of the notecard is ignored, so you'll find instructions there). The Watch4 device will access the name-to-UUID database at http://w-hat.com/name2key to find the person's SL database ID and use that to start checking if the person is online. The device checks about every minute and a half (so the DB strain is low), and sends you an IM when your chosen person comes online. If you have your SL set to forward IMs to your email address, you can be informed even if you are not in-world. Once the person has been detected, Watch4 shuts itself down until you change its notecard again, or touch it to signal it to start watching for the same person again (this time it doesn't have to hit the w-hat database, though).
The Watch4 device puts the name of the person it is watching for in floating text, and shows by its color its status: watching for someone, looking up a database key, or shut down after having detected a login. So you can tell which of your little farm of Watch4s have found their targets. It also changes its name while watching, so you'll be able to tell who logged in just from the name of the sender in your email.
Please note that this device is dependent on the w-hat database, and can't watch for any person not listed there. This is likely to include fairly recent avatars to SL. You can submit the person's name and key on the w-hat website; check the link above. I've found it is pretty good at having most of the people I want to look for.
Watch for a deluxe version that lets you supply the DB key if you know it, and not have to wait on w-hat, and also lets you specify an email address, so you don't have to forward all your IMs.
But whaddaya want for a lousy L$70?
