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Weather is fun!!!

I think the weather updates are working as designed. Every fifteen minutes, the server downloads current O’Hare data, weather forecast, and area forcast data via FTP from The National Weather Service. From there, the data is parsed to figure out what the local conditions are, decide what image to show on the left banner, convert ºF to ºC, and figure out the wind. To keep the look of the left navigation menu standard, the link to the weather is not a standard link. One can click on the “weather” word to go to detailed weather information.

E-cat sample is working for the most part. I have yet to register the AspTear dll, so the site is not able to check live inventory data. Bummer. Edit: Registered the dll, all is working fine.

Random thought: I think it’s funny that there is a deadjournal.com to go with livejournal.com.

Since I’m too cheap to buy the CoffeeCup web cam software, I am going with web cam software from booru.net. I found the software while browsing through what used to be shareware.com. The new software works great, and is extremely small in size. I have also updated the web cam page.