Recently blogger.com seems to be rater unstable. I’ve been writing posts with GMail instead. GMail’s spelling works really nice and, most of all, has the Save Draft button. I use it rather frequently. As a programmer I’ve learned long time ago to be paranoid on saving what I write frequently.. and that’s on normal text editors, which, unlike web-based applications, have the full control of the window (I could close this browser right now and lose everything I wrote so far… better save now 8).
On the actual update: I temporarily removed the Aibo view form its own camera and focused on the outside camera which is now refreshing every 4 seconds. Also, I pointed a LED light on Aibo’s charging station, so that there is never a completely dark image.
I’ve been toying with the idea of merging the Aibo-capture program with the new videochat program, or at least to find a way to share more code between them. They both have the feature of saving JPEG frames at a constant rate. Now, what’s really missing is Aibo video input for videochat 8)

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