Thinking Aloud

So…how did the graveyard shift get its name? Back in the 1800′s before modern medicine many people were literally buried alive. To combat this, people were buried with a string tied to their finger, in the event that they might awake from their coma, etc and ring a bell attached to the aforementioned string. This would alert the cemetery employee on duty…Is this a true story? I’m not sure, but it’s relevant because I am working the graveyard shift this week, and I feel like a zombie right about now.

The latest addition to the jimhanley.com web page is the webcam image. It took me a couple of evenings of reading, etc. but with the help of a free program called YAWCAM, I was able to accomplish this feat! This software has an ftp upload component which makes getting started quite simple with only basic knowledge. Right now it is sending a new image to jimhanley.com every 30 seconds, and the web page itself is set to refresh every 30 seconds, hence you should see a new image every…you guessed it….every 30 seconds.

My next goal is to get it to stream live, which is also possible using YAWCAM, but I seem to be having some IP address issues and am thus seeing some errors. So I’ll just keep on reading and experimenting and eventually you will see a live streaming camera from my house. If there is anybody out there reading this, that can give me some pointers, please leave a message in the ‘comments’… Thanks