Things are always in a constant state of transition in our house as things get moved around and tidied up. The difficult bit is keeping track of everything and I’ve been working on an idea to do just that.

Inspired by an idea in a recent book using RFID tags on all your items, my simpler idea would be to use barcodes instead. Say we have a series of drawers which will be used to store all our items (which have been issued with their own unique barcodes). Every family member too is issued with a card also containing a barcode unique to them. Drawers will only open when a users’ card is scanned and upon removal or adding of an item to the drawer, the user will be required to scan that too. This information can then be logged giving you a real time picture of what items are currently being stored (and in what location) and who has the items which have currently been removed.

I’ve been trying out a couple of database applications on my iPhone which syncs with my pc to help me plan out the infrastructure for this project and the first results look rather good - I can type in an item and bring up its location within the house. It would be nice to have a blinking light on the drawer’s face to indicate where the item is but to make things simpler, my next step is to bring up a floor plan of the room which shows my item’s whereabouts based on a series of stored images which can be referenced accordingly.

I was very lucky to get Christopher Ecclestone’s autograph last week. That is all.

Last week I found a great little sports camera on the cheap and it arrived from Hong Kong just the other day. I intend to use it over the summer as a means of recording footage whilst out on the bike and I was very please to see that it came with brackets to fix onto your helmet. I also plan to get it up into the air on the back of one of my kites too to shoot the world beneath.

I can’t get over how tiny it is and how many hours of video one can record on the thing. As a means of testing it out I clipped it to the cat’s collar one evening as I wanted to see what adventures she got up to. The answer…not a great deal as she refuses to go outside this time of year so the footage mainly consisted of lots of feet.

There were a few interesting snippits though. Take a look at this clip of her positioning herself to get a better view of the cake. If I clip it to her again during the summer when she starts exploring the fields at the back of our house, I think it’ll be really interesting to see what she gets up to.

Trying out the lego app for the iPhone. The only good thing about it that I can see at the minute are the sound effects.

Today was Charlie’s christening with family and God parents travelling from far and wide to decend on our village’s small church. Our main problem was how to fit everyone into our little house afterwards for food and drink so we had to restrict the numbers somewhat but as we all had a little corner of the church around the font, it all looked rather cute.

We thought we timed it well with his sleeps and food so that the boy wouldn’t be grumpy when his big moment arrived but sadly no, he decided to have a bit of a cry and only stopped when his head was wet. I have to say the acoustics are rather good in a Norman church when Charlie really goes for it.

Anyway, it was all back to ours for food and drink and to admire the splendid cake make by our neighbour.

About a year and a half ago I mentioned a site which allowed you to submit ideas (read it here). I stumbled on another this week called the Creativity Pool. Although the site looks incredably dated like something out of the 90s, the idea behind it is a really good one by creating a free pool of global innovation and future inventions. Pop by and take a look and maybe submit a couple of ideas of your own.