Just an update. I worked on the Skiff's Web cam most of the day today. The camera is all mounted and hookled up. I had it working really well, but right when I was getting ready to leave the internet connection and router started acting up so we're going to get a new wireless router tommoro and hopefully cure the problem. We are using an older router I had lying around and it seems to have issues.

Hopefully everything is running soon. Then we can do things like broadcast the Dart League games live and let people on the web watch the stage when bands are playing.

No doubt there will be plenty of haters bitching about there being a camera in the place, but that isn't my problem. Where it points is up to the bar and besides, bars all over have webcams. In the beginning people bitch and say they won't go to the bar anymore, but in the long run they still do and forget it is even there. It's just the nature of people to bitch about anything cool people or businesses try to do.

Anyway.. this is what it will look like based on where it is mounted right now. It can be turned by the bar staff to point wherever they want it to.




My response to some comments:

Sorry Ralph & Judy but I have strong disagreements with your attitudes on this.

Trust me, despite what you think the local cops have a lot better things to do than watch a web cam for hours, trying to pay attention to how much someone drinks, and then catch that person when they leave the bar. I mean do you really think that they don't have a fairly good idea who you are and what you drive and notice your parked in front of the bar for hours? Do you really they can't see a lot just by driving by and looking in the huge windows. Maybe Skiff's should cover up all the windows so the cops cant see you standing in the bar when they drive by?

The point is the local cops definetly have an idea who you are and figure most of you have been drinking. They know a lot more than you think, but they also leave you alone because they are not going to bother you unless you break the driving laws or do something to get pulled over.

I mean maybe if they are looking for you they can use the webcam to find you, but they certainly are not going to be using the webcam as grounds to pull someone over.

Then you got what Nick said and that's a damn good point. I mean your complaining about not getting caught drinking & driving. What is wrong with that thought process?

Now who says the web cam is always going to point at the bar? It may very well always be pointed at the dart board or the stage and never at the bar. Or maybe not.. It's up the George where it points. Right now the thing doesn't even work outside of the skiffs wireless network. At least wait until things are finalized before you get too worked up. We had it pointing at the bar the last couple days cause I am trying to test it and get it working well. Some action on the video helps me see its working and not frozen or something.

In the long run the benefits of this web cam will most likely far outway any lost business from people that don't want to come in anymore and that is a fact. I have done my research on that. Every bar that puts a web cam up goes through the same thing. After a while it's not an issue and it actually helps the bar.

I hear the Dockside is getting one too. Are you not going to go in their either?

Seriously, I think your issue with the webcam is something other than the cops. It's got to be because the cops point is just not a good point. It is actually "totally stupid" as you would put it.

That's my stance but ultimately it is up to George. I have a feeling he agrees or we wouldn't be going through all the trouble of getting this all working.