Once upon a time, on a website revision now somewhat more aged than I realised, I had a web cam. I don’t think many people used it (bar Jo, who could keep tabs on me and a few others who found it a useful means of seeing if I was on the phone and had neglected to set my IM status).
I tried plugging my extremely old Creative Labs webcam into the Mac yesterday, and although the light came on, I couldn’t make it do anything. Now it’s in the PC, and accessible from http://ben-ward.co.uk/cam/. I shan’t promise to turn it on, nor is it served using any advanced means (nor is the picture quality up to much) but heck, it’s a bit of fun (if you find a slightly chubby, early 20’s male staring at his computer screen fun, that is).
To celebrate, one of the first ‘test’ shots came out like this:
