Some time ago, my brother sent me a Veo Observer network webcam. The concept is very cool, but the implementation is tremendously poor. It’s a self-contained webcam: you plug in the power and an ethernet cable, and then you can browse to a built-in webserver and stream its image. Sweet! But then they took a great idea and saddled it with crappy features like low-quality imaging and, here’s the kicker, Windows-only support. And that Windows-only support isn’t even very good, which is why my brother sent me the thing, because he was there when Linux got invented, so he’s down that path. To me, this is anathema: the people who are going to purchase this product are NOT the ones using Windows. Every few months since I acquired the thing I went and Googled and got the same results: lots of other people grumping and groaning about its Windows-only-ness. However, just two weeks ago somebody hacked out a kludge that will allow the thing to work with any platform, which is just what I wanted. Unfortunately, it’s a kludge, but hey. If you want, you can go over and take a look. It’s sitting on the arm of my couch right now, but I might end up moving it or just putting it back in the box from which I dug it out earlier today.

Of course all of you are well acquainted with this fact, but I’ll put it down for posterity: drunk people are funny. Yes, they are.

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