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Cat tracking technology! Including CatTrack, CatCam and harnesses to hang various bits of kit off. I suggest using clicker training to introduce harness etc. to your cat rather than plunging in cold.
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Alex Lee put a little GPS unit on his cat which logs position ever 2 minutes. The resulting data tracks the cat over a period of 6 hours. Can't wait to do this to Cassie or Polly! (Fflwff would produce a single point of data - the bed.)
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A GPS cat trace. Outliers could be down to GPS errors, or kitty could just be far ranging. Would be interesting to see this animated!
From the category archives:
on the web
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I love this blog, which shows how to hack Ikea furniture and furnishing around to suit your needs. Bend to my will, bookshelf!
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Tom, who's the author of the book, Under the Paw and the blog Small Cat Diaries, talks about having cat behaviourist Vicky Halls come and visit his six kitty household.
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If you’ve ever wanted to buy a beautiful, eco-friendly house for just £25, this is an opportunity you are not going to want to pass up!
Timothy & Zoe Bawtree, whose semi-underground house in Cheltenham featured on Grand Designs in January this year, have decided that the best way for them to sell their house is to raffle it off, selling 46,000 tickets at £25 each. If you do the maths, you’ll realise that’s a cool £1m - of which 10% goes to a cancer charity - and which includes all the stamp duty and conveyancing costs.
The house itself has been valued at £895k and the winner will get not just the house, but all the furnishings and mod cons too! All the Bawtrees are taking are their personal effects, garden pots and furniture, and their kitchenware.
Being mainly underground, the house is very low-energy. As they say on their website:
As well as being fully insulated, it is heated by a ground source heat pump making it both economical to run and low maintenance. The house boasts what is one of the best HIPs ratings for energy efficiency in the town – famed worldwide for its architecture.
The house includes:
* 3 bedrooms (master with en-suite dressing room and wet room)
* Large contemporary spa room
* Family bathroom
* Open plan living space incorporating sitting room/dining room/kitchen
* Playroom/cinema room
* Study
* Utility room
* Decked patio area and terraced gardens
* Off road parking
All you need to do to enter the competition is answer this question:
And then pay up your £25! At the time of writing this, 6844 people have bought tickets and the competition’s only been open a few days, so I wouldn’t leave it too long if you’re interested! The deadline is 31st December 2008 and the draw will be made on New Year’s Day 2009 (if 46,000 tickets have been sold - if not, they will either extend the deadline by 3 months or the winner will receive all the money pooled to date, which right now stands at over £150k - not too shoddy!).
I’m going to enter, so wish me luck!
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So much cute in this video that I think my head may a splode.
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"About one-third of the UK's waste is produced by construction and demolition"
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The Shed magazine, a regular magazine from Alex Johnson of the wonderful Shedworking blog, is now available online to read as an ezine, as well as still being available as a PDF (you can download the latest versions from the sidebar of the Shedworking blog).
Alex says:
Navigation is straightforward - click on a page to bring it into focus, click to the side of a page to move pages, or on the corner.
It’s a great issue too with writer Clare Dudman featuring in the My Shed slot, Sarah Salway continuing her shed serial, Felix Bennett’s marvellous View From A Shed and a new slot featuring readers’ shed stories. You can read it online, download it as a pdf, and email a friend directly from the site to tell them all about it. Happy reading!
Do pop along and give it a spin!
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Alex Johnson of Shedworking makes it into The Independent ahead of National Shed Week
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The technical jargon is a bit beyond me, but I think this article translates to “Taylor Wimpey are in the shit”. Would love to see them sell off some of the land they’ve been hoarding. I mean, have you seen the price of plots lately?
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Useful site if you’re in the US, but for the rest of us, not so much really.
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A tutorial for building with cob, including fun time-lapse video
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If you’re an avid Grand Designs fan, you’ve probably seen the work of Carpenter Oak and Carpenter Oak & Woodland, who built the Argyll timber-framed house. I met Carpenter Oak at Grand Designs Live, and was delighted to later discover that their sister company, Carpenter Oak & Woodland (yes, I know it’s confusing!) have a blog. Although it is updated only sporadically, it’s worth taking a look through the archives as there’s some very interesting stuff hidden away there. Andy Parker points out that oak isn’t the only timber and gets cross at Martin Clarke of British Precast (whose job it is to promote concrete) for calling for a moratorium on timber use in multi-storey developments because of one fire. Tim Burrell talks about how no one seems to know what ‘environmentally responsible’ means, writes a really interesting post dissecting the poor build quality of an oak frame house featured in an issue of Homebuilding and Renovating magazine, and explains what green oak is.
The quality of the writing is great, but I’d like to see a lot more of it! The blog hasn’t been updated since March, and it’d be great if we could get at least one blog post each week. I’d also like Tim and Andy to remember that not everyone reading their blog is an expert in timber framing - they need to explain their jargon as they use it, so that us novices can learn something as we go along. Unfortunately, their RSS feed provides only headlines, and the archive navigation is so difficult that I gave up trying to dig into their old posts via the website and just read the ones still in the RSS feed. With my social media consultant hat on, I’d suggest getting Wordpress installed and using that for all things bloggish.
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