Robin Clarke - Perl and Life

With Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), this (slightly pricy - about 50EUR) webcam ran right out of the box (the standard UVC driver was used - I didn’t have to do a thing).  Image quality is super, as is light sensitivity, and (in contrast to many of the cheapo webcams like ASUS ICAM320 Webcam 640X480, which I tried out as well), there is no abnormal CPU load when the webcam is running!  I’ve tried it with Skype and Co. already.  I like it!

I’ve arrived in Vancouver!  Actually I’ve been here a week already, and the first while was rather busy… but we’ve got ourselves sorted out a bit now, and even found time to upload some pictures and write some reports

Keep reading there for the latest news and stories of our holiday and new life in Vancouver!

What a morning!  I was just introducing the new programmer to the company, showing him his desk and explaining the processes, when I heard water running… just a bit unusual in an office…  a glance behind towards my desk, and I see the start of a trickle coming out of the panel above my desk.  I quickly pulled my desk out of the way, as the trickle turned into a torrent!  As we found out later, the building contractors who are renovating the building have been re-connecting old heating pipes, and every time they have done it, a pipe has leaked somewhere… but rather than warn people, and give them a number where to call to have it turned off in an emergency, they just thought they’d try it out… so about 15 minutes later when we finally got the builders to turn off the water we already had several hundred liters of dirty old heating water in an expanding circle, only a small amount of it being caught by the buckets we quickly spread out underneath, or the plastic sheet with which we tried to guide it out the window with…  What a morning!