Sure.  You'd probably want to use plain ol' syslog to forward stuff in, but you might also want to be able to stream the events back to your browser.  There really wasn't a good and easy way to do this until node.js came along.<p>Oh, it's been done, such as using something like Twisted to stream the data back to the browser, but coding in Twisted is like taking mushrooms and running around <i>naked</i> in rural Oklahoma.  It doesn't end well.