This was a weird moment. With a few minutes to explore some python tools, but not enough time or energy to do real work (it IS Saturday!)  I wondered how quickly I could write a script (fired off by cron) that took a picture once an hour with the isight camera and upload it to Flickr with my external IP as a title. I thought I’d kick myself that I didn’t do this and my computer ever got left on a train or stolen.

You can see it took roughly 30 minutes and less than a page o’ code (the first 10 minutes produced no photos and I had to sign up for a Flickr API key).

I think I have a huge market for this software down at the Tax Office, Benefits Office, Insert-Your-Favourite-Government-Dept-here.