So you don't have time to escape to your beach house, smell the sea air, feel the warm breeze on your neck and the sand between your toes—but what's nearly as good? Staring at a cold, flickering computer screen, apparently. Being a "voyeur" of your vacation home via a webcam is all the rage, claims the WSJ: You can relax watching the palm trees sway and even better, you can spy on houseguests and monitor staff as they go about their business. Or don't go about their business, such as the shocking story of the dog walker who didn't turn up to Louis Cohen's Florida home, but was caught out thanks to a camera at the house's entrance. "They don't know they're being watched," says Cohen, maybe not realizing quite how much he sounds like a character in a Joe Eszterhas film.
