Christmas Santa's Helpers

Doing thousands of christmas lights is a LOT of work, and I am fortunate to have some Santa's Helpers to assist me. The picture to the left is from Thanksgiving/2004 when my folks, brother, and my kids helped deploy the 17,000 lights I put up that year. My folks are coming back again for Thanksgiving, and for 2005, "Watch out Clark Griswold! ;-)"

Another espect that is a bit of work is the christmas decorations webcam which brings a lot of christmas cheer to folks around the world. This has gotten increasingly popular over the year and after an international media frenzy in 2004, I had to disclose it was a computer simulation - as Time Magazine wrote, "I figured I could provide some holiday cheer to folks." For Christmas 2005, I'll be doing it for real. This also takes a bit of work, but fortunately, a few companies have donated items to help out - specifically:

Steve Groenier at X10.Com send me some assorted appliance modules and other X10 gear. While I had already wired my house with X10, they aren't designed to be cycled thousands of times, so I'll have some replacements when things croak.
Dan Kelley D-Link was nice enough to loan me a DCS-6620G wireless webcam for the holiday season to compliment the one I already own.

Things I could still use some help with:

It's too late for 2005, but I'd love maybe for 2006, I'll go to one of the newer powerline control technologies. X10 can "only" switch the lights on & off about every second and the signals sometimes are lost. I have to queue SOMETHING How cool would it be if the lights were switchable hundreds othe - how cool would it be if I had second or two
Anyone got two more D-Link DCS-6620G wireless webcams they can load me for 2005? Actually, anything with PTZ (optical zoom please) that is wireless with FTP upload capability would work. There are two more locations I could put webcams, and the 768 KBit/sec upload speed of my Comcast connection would support up to 4 webcams. How cool would it be to have not just 2 webcams going, but 4!