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Construction Cam online

Submitted by Alan on Mon, 06/05/2006 - 23:01.

The Construction Cam is online, well two weeks ahead of scheduled demolition and reconstruction activities. Even though the Middle of the Night doesn't allow for viewing of much, you can still enjoy the occasional glimpse of the moon or a bright star, wind-blown tree shadows, and random bits of multicolored static well after you should have gone to bed.

Construction cam picture: Cleverly camoflaged webcam in a nice weather-resistant Pelco housing.Construction cam picture: Cleverly camoflaged webcam in a nice weather-resistant Pelco housing.
Until the start of demolition on June 25, the camera will capture a generally serene scene of a large parchment-color vinyl-sided wall. There will also be appearances by family and friends, mostly the kids, who will likely be visible mostly on the grassy area. We try to keep the children off the wall and roof as much as possible. Oh, and, of course, Toby the black lab will also be frequently observed looking dead ... as he warms himself in the sun in the mornings and cools himself in the afternoon shade. Don't worry, he looks like that a lot.

For the techie-types out there, the web page is being served up by the feature-full EvoCam v3.6 using a custom, rather bland html template just for the purpose of emedding within the duckfamily.net site. The camera is a wired ethernet TRENDnet TV-IP100. The Construction Cam page is just an iframe (w3.org, HTMLHelp) which pulls the original web page source from my G4 running EvoCam at home. The frame rate would be better if Comedycast supported more upload bandwidth ... bring on FIOS, Verizon.

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HEY - I just saw Toby!!! Too

Submitted by Stacy (not verified) on Tue, 06/06/2006 - 08:52.

HEY - I just saw Toby!!! Too cool you guys!! What fun this will be to watch the work in progress. Great job Alan - you are so darn techie it scares me!! Laughing

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Toby the slouch

Submitted by Alan on Thu, 06/15/2006 - 06:46.

Hi Stacy!
Yes, Toby will be the most regular viewable member of the family until construction starts. Mostly doing what Snoopy imortalized for us: "Dogs were born to sleep in the sun."

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:)

Submitted by Gregg Koskela (not verified) on Wed, 06/14/2006 - 14:55.

I just LOVE techie details and geek speak! 

Very impressive.I love what you've done with the whole site, but a construction cam kind of takes the cake!
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Thanks!

Submitted by Alan on Thu, 06/15/2006 - 04:43.

Thanks for stopping by, Gregg! Your blog was one of the reasons for the redesign as blogging should be easy and Mambo wasn't doing that for us. Drupal hasn't always been my favorite, but it's matured a lot. And, the little side tab menu that you have is what I'm using for my Places to visit block with some css tweaks like a box with rounded corners. Only Firefox supports the border radius of that box. Apple has done well keeping Safari current with CSS in general, but I think they need to step up to supporting CSS3 now, too, even though it's still under construction.

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