Just because I’m a geek from hell, I also now have screenshots from my desktops available. At the moment there is only one, but there are plans for Ryoko and possibly other machines as well.

That’s right. I skimp on the real graphics so I can waste your bandwidth and mine by loading up this page with really goofy nonsense like this. It’s amazing how much I care, truly care, about my visitors.

Okay, so I’ve stopped using the dropcaps. I realized (belatedly) that they’re going to wreak havoc with the redesign that’s coming just as soon as I get some free time to monkey with the code. It’s going to be fun, it’s going to look great, but it’s not going to like having big ugly dropcaps all over the place. Ah well. It sure makes starting one of these entries a helluva lot easier not to have to type “span class = dropcap” and so on.

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.

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!

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.