Not usually. To be quite honest I don't usually think about the fact that there's a camera putting photos of me onto the 'Net constantly. Sometimes though when friends or other people send me a message or make a comment it reminds me that I'm "public" and I do get a little weirded out.

Thus far it's actually been sheer coincidence that the computer has been off. But I'm not sure what to say... I suppose if she wants it turned off or pointed at the ceiling, I'll do that. Otherwise, I'll just leave it. I mean, isn't that what the internet's for?

No. I won't pander to the camera in any way for anyone. I am not an actor or a person who exists solely to amuse you. I just happen to adhere to a strange "because I can" philosophy with my camera.

I'm not exactly sure, sometimes it actually seems to do so on its own. Generally, though, the technique I'm using to refresh the page, META HTTP-EQUIV, only forces the browser to reload the HTML document itself and not any files linked to by said document. Which in this case would be the image. Holding "shift" when you reload a page (in Netscape, anyway) tells the browser to reload not only that html page but also everything it contains, including all the images.

The camera is hooked up to the computer I use every day for all sorts of things. Sometimes I turn it off, sometimes it crashes and I need to restart, sometimes byrneweb.com is down when the new image is ready, and sometimes the software I use just goes all weird and I have to stop running it to get anything done. Usually, things aren't "off" for more than a day, if that.

I've got a QuickCam VC connected to a 450 mHz Power Mac G4. The software I use for taking the pictures and uploading them via FTP is Oculus 2.5.7b, a $20 piece of shareware written by folks at Poubelle.

Contrary to popular belief, I have a life. I may be somewhere else in the apartment (in which case I'm probably eating, watching the Simpsons, or playing foosball), at class, or somewhere else entirely.

If it seems "wrong" to you, you're probably not in the Central (US) time zone, which is where I am.

Unfortunately, yes. Except for when it's messier.