Here's something fairly simple, get your WebBrick gateway to Twitter.

 As a word of caution, don't attach this to the home/away event otherwise twitterers like B.Urglar will know the status of you house.

 Ok, Lets upload the file again.

Regards

Andy

 Ok that doesn't work -- I'll get someone to work out what's happened with storage, in the meantime here is the code:

 #
#  Send a status via Twitter, takes user,pass and msg from the command line
#
#  Andy Harris, WebBrick Systems, no rights reserved
#  4th August 2009
#
import getopt, sys, twitter


def main():
    try:
        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "h:v", ["help", "msg=","user=","pass="])
    except getopt.GetoptError, err:
        print str(err) # will print something like "option -a not recognized"
        usage()
        sys.exit(2)

    message = None
    username = None
    password = None
    verbose = False

    print "The opts %s" % opts
    for o, a  in opts:
        if o == "-v":
            verbose = True
        elif o in ("-h", "--help"):
            usage()
            sys.exit()
        elif o in ("-m", "--msg"):
            print "o %s and a %s" % (o,a)
            message = a
        elif o in ("-u", "--user"):
            print "o %s and a %s" % (o,a)
            username = a
        elif o in ("-p", "--pass"):
            print "o %s and a %s" % (o,a)
            password = a
        else:
            assert False, "unhandled option"

    api = twitter.Api(username,password)
    api.PostUpdate(message)


def usage():
    print "Usage problem, check your params --user uname --pass passwd --msg theMessage"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()