Along with a fantastic brown leather coat and a pair of neon New Balance running shoes, I got a $7 webcam at the thrift store.  I plugged the USB in and the boyfriend found drivers for it.  We had it working within minutes of getting home.

If you’ve been reading for a year or more you’ll remember I had a live streaming webcam as part of my weblog for many months.  Then I lived alone and ran it all the time.  Sometimes I put a movie on and aimed my webcam at the tv while I was away.  It was an experiment for me for some time.  It’s been a long time since that streaming webcam software I bought expired, so I was looking for software that would stream video onto a webpage viewable in a browser.  And I wanted it to be free.

I don’t know if I have ever told you this, but the interweb is my boyfriend’s bitch.  My boyfriend can prove that he is right about ANY disagreement by consulting Google.  He is technically savvy and a ravenous problem solver, and thus I have a working webcam.

At right under the Webcam heading you’ll see an image grabbed from webcam.  That image will change if you refresh my blog, or you can see a bigger version that refreshes itself every 10 seconds by clicking on the webcam image at right.  I’ve also included a discussion board for the webcam in case I have food on my face and you’d like to clue me in. 

I’ll only have this thing on when I’m actually at the computer.  The boyfriend has threatened to shut down the broadcast if he’s ever once seen on the interweb in his undies.