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Okey doke... say high to Pastor Lucky for me. [snif] :-)

Say... I took that POS wireless cam back today, and then stopped at Fry's on the way in. (Frys: WOW... that's the biggest Frys I've ever seen... even bigger than the one in Palo Alto. I was in consumer overload for about an hour before I got out of there. I could fill a couple of shopping carts in there without even trying.)

What I found out was that there are NO wireless webcams yet on the market that are compatible with any other webcam software but their own. All they do is capture video for their own built-in web server. In other words... nothing that will send individual images to another machine for upload to your website.

What I came up with was a 5-meter USB extension cable. The USB standard appears to be optimal at no more than about two meters. This cable has a little inline booster, like an ethernet repeater I suppose. It allows another five meters... which should let us mount a regular USB cam outside by running it out the slider and maybe mounting the cam high on the outside wall, to capture the whole scene.

There's a nifty cam they have that isn't too spendy but has a really good pic quality and a nifty *zoom* feature, that might be interesting.

Then I walked into the section for security cams...[ohgod ohgod ohgod] where you can buy those *really* cool dome-camera systems like they have in casinos and airports. [shudder] Really stinkin' cool. Remote control pan-tilt-zoom, where you could zoom right in on a rock on the beach if you wanted. [sigh]

Then there was the six-cell Maglite. SIX -count'em- SIX cells. I thought five cells was cool. Dang... Like I said... I couldn't filled a shopping cart or three.