AJays Webcams

Some minor housekeeping. I added some new cams and removed links that where no longer valid.

I was pleasantly surprised to hear from Kathy from Alaska USA, informing me that I had the location of a cam wrong in my posting, however, I was even more surprised to get a note later in the day from a gentleman in Finland.
He sent me a link I believe to be his home cam.
It is the RUUHIS LIVE CAM
Give the RUUHIS cam a look, and see what’s going on.
Maybe we can get the RUUHIS cam to provide us with some additional info about his site, and we’ll post it?
Thanks for you link, I will add it to my gallery.

AJay : )

This week we take a look at a cam in the southern U.S. located around Mobile, Alabama.
Google map position here…
The Cam server is out of Summerdale, however, the cam is situated along the gulf coast, more than likely in Gulf Shores Alabama.
It a very nice beach shot showing people doing beach stuff…, what ever that may be….

Catch the streaming Video here…

I was doing some casual reading through news and information sites, and happend upon Bob Browns Open Source Ministry site. He had an interesting blog about Web Cam Security.
Normally, I would have heard about what he was talking about in his blog through my news feeds and other feeds, however, the news about the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) and the FBI specifically using face recognition and anomaly recognition software with public web cams to determine if something has happened based upon whether there are many fewer people or many more people in the scene than statistically expected caught me off guard.
(see PDF) The way it caught me off guard was not so much that it was a suprise to me that the FBI does this kind of thing as much as the time they spent researching it and using funds for it, when that money could have been spent more resourcefully. It’s like these federal grants you hear about where in Alaska they wanted to build this $315 million bridge that connected a town of 8900 to an island of 50 inhabitants saving a 7 minute ferry ride.
The money ( Tax payers Dollars) can and should be spent more effectively.

I digress…, This is wasted money in DHS & the FBI, when they could take what ever they spent on that study, and put more personel on the streets with their ears to the ground. It was said in the last few years by Bob Baer and Greg Treverton, former case officers for the CIA that while technology is good, it does not replace people in the field, and that the FBI’s main job is to basically be a law enforcement operation and do forensics, and do investigations of crimes. But they’re not supposed to be out there poking around groups that might break the law.

Anyhow, I got a little deep with this subject, however, I think the FBI needs to focus on their primary mission, and leave the face recognition and anomaly recognition software to other departments that specialize in that field.

Ok…, guess I can expect a black sedan to pull up in front of the house tomorrow, if carnivore is secretly still in action.

Those crazy Ruskies.

They drive crazy! Just take a look at this Streaming Web Cam located at an intersection in Vasilevsky Island, St. Petersburg Russia.

St. Petersburg is located in Eastern Europe, on the Eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. (Gulf of Finland) It is sometimes known as “The Venice of the North.” It was founded in 1703 and is the most Northern city in the world with a population over 1 million. It was named in honor of St. Peter and not Peter the Great, the founder of the city.

St. Petersburg Florida, was named in honor of St. Petersburg Russia, by Russian-born railroad builder Piotr Dementyev. (Peter Demens)
It has changed names several times in it’s 304 years.
May, 1703 - August, 1914 St. Petersburg
August, 1914 - February, 1924 Petrograd
February, 1924 - July, 1991 Leningrad
July, 1991 - Present St. Petersburg

If you would like to see more of St. Petersburg and it’s history more than what you can see at the intersection Web Cam, take this virtual tour of the city, and make sure you check out the stunning 360º photo’s here as well.

Click here to see the live stream

Incredible underwater streaming Axis webcam of the Beluga whale in a tank in Britsh Columbia, Canada.

Click here to view the Beluga whales