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Thu, 19 May 2005

The home office shed
The BBC had a recent article in their magazine called "Shed heaven" which described how more people are installing luxury sheds as "garden offices".

What a fantastic idea!

There are lots of interesting sites on the web including:

garden office info from The Garden Escape including some information about the planning process in the FAQ
some cool pictures and bits of info at http://www.findaproperty.com/story.aspx?storyid=5513
a guide from ISP blueyonder on how to build your own wireless shed

Obviously insulation and heating are serious problems to the would-be shed entrepreneur. Kieran pointed me at two suppliers of compact insulation material which might be useful, or at least a starting point for further research:

At the more luxurious end of the market, rather than a shed you can opt for a log cabin instead.

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Sarah and Dan's wedding
Sarah and Dan got married a few weeks ago but I've been too busy to sort out my photo collection until now. I didn't get very many good photos so here is a short selection of the best of the bunch:

I did shoot quite a lot of videos (in fact I managed to fill up 1GB of SD) which took absolutely ages to transcode into more web-friendly versions. The files below might require you to upgrade to the latest version of Quicktime (version 7) (free, non-pro version should be fine) because they use apple's new H.264 video compressor.

(Piano player at reception)

[QT7 MOV, 1.4Mb]

(Andrew speaks to a man about a dog)

[QT7 MOV, 600kB]

(First dance)

[QT7 MOV, 5.7MB]

(Father of the bride))

[QT7 MOV, 3.5MB]

(Bridgegroom)

[QT7 MOV, 2.0MB]

(Best Man)

[QT7 MOV, 5.6MB]

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Back in Princeton for the summer
I flew back to the US on monday and am here for the rest of the summer, until september 3rd. I left Eleanor my laptop + isight + usb headset and we managed to get video-chatting working using iChat over her new broadband connection -- very cool. It doesn't seem to use a great deal of bandwidth... according to ethereal:

packets/sec

bytes/sec

So even though she's on the smallest NTL broadband package which has a monthly bandwidth cap of 3GB, she should be able to run a 30kB/sec video chat for about 30hours continuously before reaching the limit.

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