SeekingFire

The MetaNetwork wiki now has a page to collect funny quotes from the IRC channel. Eventually we'll do a real bash.org clone or something. In somebodies Copious Spare Time(tm).

The IP changes are finished and things are humming along again (kudos to Scott for helping make this go smoothly).

It even galvanized some old plans into action and 2 extra tunnels between core routers have been added for better redundancy. The network map is updated on the wiki, and I even got around to filling out my tunnel allocations table.

All in all, a fairly painless migration.

I ordered an Apple iSight last Thursday. According to the shipment tracking info, it should be here in a few days.

Now, I want to make clear that I'm not a web-cam kinda guy. I consider all chatting protocols newer than IRC to be mostly useless and I still use ytalk on a regular basis. Pretty much any form of electronic communication that can't be run under screen tends to annoy me within minutes.

So what am I getting the iSight for?

It's actually a decent video camera in a small form-factor. Autofocusing, autoexposure, F/2.8 lens, firewire connection to the host, a built-in dual-element microphone, and 30fps at 640x480. In other words, this "webcam" actually doesn't suck.

(I know, I know, all hardware sucks. But, much like my favourite mail client (mutt), the iSight sucks less than it should.)

So it's a nice little piece of geek flash. And that's about all I have for a reason to get it :-). If there are video geeks out there who have ideas for how to do some neat hackery with the toy, I'd love to hear from them.