We’re kickin’ it old-school here on greyduck.net. I’ve fallen back upon my old technique of using WebCam2000 on Ryoko (the Windows machine) to serve up the webcam images. This gives me several benefits, among which is the ability to beef up the refresh rate considerably.
I was pleased to learn that there’s a new maintainer for the WebCam2000 project. Let’s hear it for new free software!
No point checking in with weblogs.com to see if I’ve updated, since I’m no longer pinging their server automatically. It rarely worked, and even when it did work it made the process of adding journal entries take much, much longer. Bleah.
I‘m afraid you can’t spy on me for a while. I’m having more technical difficulties with the 3Com HomeConnect USB webcam under Linux, so I’m taking the cam offline until the HomeconnectUSB project on Sourceforge catches up to what I need it to be.
Sorry, no more peering at my cluttered office all day, folks.
It was bound to happen before very long, I suppose. I found a supremely addictive space trading game for my Palm. If you want to lose several hours of your life and you own a Palm Pilot, check out Space Trader.
Think “Trade Wars” for the Palm OS, just without the multi-player aspect and without having to wait a whole day to get another few turns.
In a whirlwind frenzy (ooo, Diablo II reference!) of computer building, I assembled Amy and Michael’s new superbox the night before last and started installing Windows last night.
Only to find that the Epox motherboard we bought has a CMOS problem that makes it prone to not starting up after the machine has been run for an hour. Oh, great.
So today, I suspect, they’re going to take the motherboard back to Fry’s and see about getting another one. Once that’s accomplished I’ll see about building them a real live working computer. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Thanks to code from this page, every time I add or update an entry to my site Weblogs.com is notified automagically.
It’s just another small way to bring in more visitors to the site. And you know me; I’ll do anything I can to show off how damned clever I am. Or hadn’t you noticed that yet?
Mind you, I couldn’t show off my cleverness if it weren’t for the efforts of the truly bright folks who create the software I manipulate. Never let it be said that I’m ungrateful. I know exactly where I stand in the Great Scheme Of Things.
