Hugh's Worthless Blog

Having worked here on the Washington University  Danforth Campus for years now, I have enjoyed using their webcams so I could see the condition of the parking lots and sidewalks from home on those nasty winter mornings before coming into campus. I always thought they had some pretty useful webcams. But now that my son will be attending a different local university next year, I noticed that other fine educational institution just put online some updated webcams of their own. Saint Louis University initially had a webcam up to monitor their clock tower during the "Occupy SLU" week when the Michael Brown protesters were camped out there, but now they have a full suite of webcams located around the SLU campus. My favorite is the one pointed at Grand and the Busch Student Center where you can see the traffic and the pedestrians as they take turns at that intersection. You can even full screen the webcam image, and it has a volume control too, but I do not think the audio ac

This morning I was checking my email, when I noticed I received not one but two different messages notifying me that the previously taken domain, hughchou.com , was now available for purchase. One said it would reserve the domain for me for only $49 (alextro.com) and the other one said it would charge me just $69.95 for a one year registration (domainsreserved.com). What a great deal! Since I already had hughchou.org registered at GoDaddy , I thought I would see if I could just grab that name over there instead of using one of these high priced "domain resellers". What do you know, I can grab that same domain for one year for just $14.99 at GoDaddy and the second year is a whopping $2.99 more. So for a little over $18, I was able to grab www.hughchou.com  for two whole years! That domain just forwards to my other domains like hughcalc.org and hughchou.org as well as to my blogs like my St. Louis  restaurant blog , this general blog , and my wife's gluten-free reci