Ben Ward

Ben Cam

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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:
A webcam photograph of Ben Ward, wearing his new 'SimpleBits' T-Shirt and pulling a somewhat silly face

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  3. Rob Mientjes

    OH MY GOD STOP GIVING ME THE SEXY LOOK ON THE NOW-STATIC IMAGE*cough* I tried to connect my QuickCam once and I didn’t get any coolness so I decided to find software. There was only one open source project supporting mine, so I tried that and the mini crashed. As if I needed to be reminded that 256MB RAM IS NOT ENOUGH…

  4. Ben

    How can you see the sexy look!? My eyes are out-of-focus and my �c’mere� lips are otherwise engaged with a coffee mug. That look is my little secret! Err�

    The software I use (on Windows), which yesterday decided to start crashing is Booru WebCam. Free, pretty raw, but certainly used to do the job OK.

    A nights sleep has made realise just how truly awful that picture quality is. Anyone wanna buy me an iSight?

  5. Steven Marshall

    Some of us who own webcams (but not blogs, as you reminded me whilst writing this, you bastard) prefer not to let the rest of the intarwebs (read: perverts a.k.a. Fatty) spy on us�

  6. Fatty
    Anyone wanna buy me an iSight?

    Um� how about no?And Stevie’s insulting me again: why am I not surprised?Oh, and �Mmmmmmcoffee��

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