Day: 10 February 2007

APOD: 2007 February 5 – Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning

Ok it doesn’t fit correctly, but what a nice picture.

Thanks to the cool WAN -Cambridge forums for the clue

CEN News : Features : Snowballs – and an £80 fine

Words do fail me at this point, to understand why this student was not instead given £80 in appreciation of making people laugh!

Ok it’s official I am a saddo!!

Earlier this week because of the all too rare snow downfall in Cambridge, I put a webcam on my window to the front garden. Using a combination of Ncftpput and Mplayer I took a frame every 10 mins and uploaded to here:

However, this was not that cool! I’ve now used a cool app called Motion . This monitors a webcam (V4L device /dev/video0) and on changes to the image will take a screenshot and or mpeg stream, and also allows you to trigger events. So linked to a ncftpput based script, this takes the image and uploads it to my website.

Now all i need is somebody to visit me!!