May 25, 2009

Wambooli Porchcam, RIP

Filed under: Main — Tags: — admin @ 12:01 am

I’ve decided to take the Wambooli porchcam offline.

Yes, it’s a sad day here at the Wambooli Space-Time-Robotics laboratory. The faithful webcam that’s been up since 2002 (with a long break about 2 years back), is finally offline. Maybe not for good, but for now.

For some reason my web cam software is acting funky. It could be due to a recent Windows update, though I don’t want to uninstall the update just because the webcam software is acting hinkey.

Actually, it could be due to the newer version of Java installed on my PC, seeing how Java was updated recently.

Regardless, I’m using the Porchcam’s PC as my Windows 7 test computer, and the software doesn’t run on Windows 7. So with the Porchcam being down more often than not, I thought I’d just take it offline for now.

I still have the Porchcam hardware, so I’m not disconnecting that. If in the future better software comes along, I’ll put the Porchcam back up. Until then, here is the Porchcam year-in-review, though 6 months early:

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4 Comments

  1. Some of these pictures are wild ! I cannot imagine living where the temperature can stay in single digits for two weeks. I live about 30 miles from the Gulf Of Mexico, and any time the temperature is expected to fall below 40, the city enacts its “Emergency Freeze Plan”. I kid you not.

    Comment by sean bernard — May 26, 2009 @ 3:37 pm

  2. We had so much snow this year that the city didn’t know what to do with it. Indeed, the elected officials mostly hid out during the 6 weeks the streets were pretty much impassable. I remember a garbage truck backing two blocks down my street because it couldn’t squeeze by the cars parked (next to the 8 foot-deep snow berms). There were roof collapses galore, including an indoor sports arena. Yeah, when it gets down to the single digits here they just remind people to bring in their cats. It’s really something!

    Comment by admin — May 26, 2009 @ 3:45 pm

  3. Dan, coming from a country where snow occurs only in about three places, what does one do when it’s 7°F? (A quick Google told me it was -14°C-ish… if it were that cold here, I’d be in bed rugged up warm with every blanket I could possibly find).

    The coldest it’s ever been where I live is -3.9°C (and that was forty two years before I was born, and probably at 2am or some similarly ungodly hour), but the coldest maximum temperature I can recall is about 12°C.

    Comment by Douglas — May 28, 2009 @ 2:50 am

  4. 7º was warm. It was at about 0º for a week, maybe hitting 1º. That’s -17ºC.

    What do you do? Nothing outside! You bundle up, stay warm, sit by the fire. I was out shoveling snow in that weather, but I kept a space heater on so that I could walk inside and warm my hands. Me Nanook of the North!

    Comment by admin — May 28, 2009 @ 6:18 am

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