My hamster Lucy, tracked with HamsterTracker™
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Created by Mathijs van der Paauw
- Online since September 5th, 2004 -

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It is really doing what it has been designed to do; Tracking my hamster Lucy!

Our favorite internet DJ's, (6 banners, rotate every 15 sec.) DJ Mitch, DJ Quincy Jointz, DJane Vibrella, Simon Harrison, Christina Long & DJ Elliot:

Our favorite internet DJ's: (alphabetical order)
DJ Christina Long (www.citrona.net/sorbet.htm), DJ Mitch (www.djmitch.it), DJ Quincy Jointz (www.quincy-jointz.de), DJane Vibrella (www.vibrella.de), Simon Harrison (www.basic-soul.co.uk). To name a few.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - day 314 - current treadmill total: 390,923.78 meters! (17:40 CET)

Lucy's Portrait

Picture of my hamster Lucy during the Toast & Peanutbutter experiment.

" When I surf the net, I always start at HamsterTracker.com!
Ohh, Sorry, I thought that pineseed was a microphone! " - Lucy

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 - day 313 - current treadmill total: 390,627.69 meters! (17:50 CET)

Toast & Peanutbutter Xperiment

A while ago I Lee emailed me, that his hamster loves Peanutbutter.
I thought it would be a great littl' experiment to find out if Lucy likes it.

For this experiment, I toasted a fresh slice of bread lightly, and added some peanutbutter, after cooling down.
Then I offered it to Lucy.
She sniffed it (sadly I didn't shoot a photograph of this).
After which she, ahhh wel, observe yourself:

Picture of my hamster Lucy during the Toast & Peanutbutter experiment.

" I don't know about this one... " - Lucy

Update: She took it after a while! Having a few bites, then storing it...

Monday, April 24, 2006 - day 312 - current treadmill total: 390,471.38 meters! (17:05 CET)

Springtime & Lucy's game (again)

I shot the following (offtopic) photograph this time in my backyard:

Picture of a birdsnest with two eggs, in my backyard.

These are blackbird eggs! I've seen mom- and dad-blackbird many many times in my garden!

Lucy's touchdown game again!

Beside the spring weather I've been enjoying these last couple of days, I had some more fun with Lucy on the couch.
She tries to climb up the back of the couch, trying to reach the table behind it.

Picture of Lucy climbing up the back of the couch.

Picture of Lucy climbing up the back of the couch.

" Almost there! " - Lucy

On my screen (17", 1280x1024) , she is approx. live-size in this picture!

See also: Day 276

Behind the scenes

I've split this page once again, for your fast(er) loading convenience!
This took actually a bit more work than anticipated!

I've also spent quite some time thinking about design issues, when I move all files to HamsterTracker.com.
I need to get a bit more familiar with PHP and MySQL first though. Quite fun to explore!
I'll keep you posted, as always :-)

Friday, April 21, 2006 - day 309 - current treadmill total: 389,483.38 meters! (19:15 CET)

Lucy's tough business negotiations

I shot the following photograph of Lucy negotiating:

Picture of Lucy's business negotiating.

" Eight more pineseeds for this picture!" - Lucy

Info:Hamsters have only four fingers on each paw. Although they do have five toes on each foot.

I guess that's why Lucy gets her mathematics mixed-up sometimes!

She will get 8 extra minutes in her Explorer ball,
because she loves that!
With her daily treats ofcourse, she always gets those.

Thursday, April 20, 2006 - day 308 - current treadmill total: 389,345.91 meters! (18:15 CET)

Quite a few HamsterTracker(tm) Ideas to work on!

Many new ideas for HamsterTracker.com

I don't know if it is the spring time or what;
I've been 'doodling' quite a few ideas lately!

This got Lucy a bit worried, about quality time outside her cage!

Picture of Lucy trying to get out of her cage by being awesomely cute.

" I have also a good idea! If you let me out now, I'll tell you! " - Lucy

Gullp!

Who can resist such a cute hamster???

Come on out of your cage and let's hear all about it, Lucy!

Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - day 307 - current treadmill total: 389,287.75 meters! (16:40 CET)

Behaviour experiment with Lucy

Lucy practically jumps out of her cage when I hold her Explorer ball in front of it!
These last few weeks, I hardly took her out another way, therefore the following experiment:

Picture of Lucy's behavioural experiment.

" Hi dude, what's up? " - Lucy

Picture of Lucy's behavioural experiment.

" You smell nice! " - Lucy

Picture of Lucy's behavioural experiment.

" Xcuse me? No treat? What's up? " - Lucy

Picture of Lucy's behavioural experiment.

" We have discussed this earlier (see: March 24, 2006 day 281)!
Mumble mumble mumble... " - Lucy

Note: A few minutes later she climbed out of the cage straight into the palm of my hand! I guess, she wasn't ready, when my camera was and vice versa!

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - day 306 - current treadmill total: 389,006.06 meters! (17:40 CET)

Lucy's moment to herself

I caught Lucy having a moment for herself in her 'Meditation-room';

Picture of Lucy having a moment to herself.

- without comments -

Monday, April 17, 2006 - day 305 - current treadmill total: 388,600.38 meters! (11:55 CET)

Easter Donation by Dup

Lucy got a little present from Dup today;

Picture of an egg Lucy got for Easter.

I'll give her some of this hardboiled egg tonight. She is sleeping at this time of writing.
Which is still oke here in the Netherlands, because we actually have Second Easter Day today!

HamsterTracker™ shouts to Dup for this great Easter-gift!

Update (21:10 CET): Lucy Loved it!

Picture of Lucy enjoying her Easter-egg.

" Mmmmm, that's really nice of Dup, I just love Easter Egg! " - Lucy

Sunday, April 16, 2006 - day 304 - current treadmill total: 388,378.16 meters! (9:55 CET)

Lucy's opinion

I asked Lucy to review the new HamsterTracker™ banner.
She jumped at the chance:

Picture of Lucy wanting out of her cage.

" Show me, Show me, Show me! " - Lucy

Picture of Lucy eating a raisin.

" I really love raisins! " - Lucy

I guess she approves...

Friday, April 14, 2006 - day 302 - current treadmill total: 387,923.56 meters! (21:30 CET)

Great news from Vitakraft!

Today I recieved an awesome snail-mail by Vitakraft that Lucy will really like!

A letter from Vitakraft for Lucy

How awesome is this; Lucy gets to try out some products not available in our Dutch petshops!
I am planning to document her findings of these awesome new products, very very soon!

To be continiued...

HamsterTracker(tm) shouts to all people of Vitakraft!

Thursday, April 13, 2006 - day 301 - current treadmill total: 387,458.09 meters! (17:10 CET)

Lucy's Statistical Graphs update

Here's an update of Lucy's latest statistical graphs.

My hamster Lucy lastest statistical graph.

HamsterTracker™ Server crashes:
Day: 12, 30, 44, 57, 67, 68, 76, 90, 91, 96, 99, 116, 182, 292

My hamster Lucy treadmill time graph.

Total Distance Trend Graph:

My hamster Lucy water consumption graph.

Wedesday, April 12, 2006 - day 300 - current treadmill total: 387,221.44 meters! (18:20 CET)

Exclusive download: All new Lucy wallpaper

"He who celibrates, shall give-ith away..."

To celibrate the birth of HamsterTracker.com
Have a (new) Lucy on your desktop. Download her wallpaper now:

Lucy's Desktop 3

My desktop:

The icons in the picture above are (ofcourse) NOT included in this picture.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - day 299 - current treadmill total: 387,073.09 meters! (17:40 CET)

The birth of HamsterTracker.com

Get out your history-books, agenda's etc. and mark yesterday as the birth of HamsterTracker.com!
Because it could take up to 24 hours, for all the DNS-servers in the world to get updated, I guess it's safe to share this with the (online-) world now.

Although I already hinted at this, by placing the banner on the top of this page yesterday ;-)

These last couple of months I find it more and more difficult to explain someone where to find my website.
is too long, while http://tinyurl.com/5hkrv is too cryptive.

SO, Please update your bookmarks!

The comming months I will transfer this complete site to HamsterTracker.com.
Right now, you'll just be redirected to (your familiar) http://home.iae.nl/users/mathijs/hamtstertracker/ url.

About linking

If you have a website and you want to link to this one (Great!, Thank you!), but please use http://HamsterTracker.com as URL.


<a href="http://HamsterTracker.com">HamsterTracker.com</a>

You could also opt for adding the following banner to your site.

(image details: height = 61 pixels, width = 477 pixels, size = 3 kb)

Copy this image (right click on it, and choose 'Save image as'...) to your website.
Place it in the same directory as the page you want to display it on.

Please don't deeplink to this image, thank you!


<a href="http://HamsterTracker.com">
  <img src="HamsterTracker.com.banner.gif" height="61" width="477" 
     alt="I love Lucy @ HamsterTracker.com" />
</a>

Use the code in the above textboxes to display the HamsterTracker.com banner or link on your website

Update: (19:10)

I forgot to mention, that I didn't buy champagne for Lucy to celibrate, no I got her something else:

Raisins for my hamster Lucy, to celibrate HamsterTracker.com

Raisins for my hamster Lucy, to celibrate HamsterTracker.com

Lucy is sleeping right now, but we are going to celibrate! Raisins and all!
The blue arrow points to Lucy, if you look close you can spot her ears.

I had this "magical blue float'n'hover arrow" for a long time now, and I thought this would be a good occasion to use it! Too bad they only float'n'hover for 30 minutes...

Monday, April 10, 2006 - day 298 - current treadmill total: 386,164.44 meters! (16:30 CET)

More Extreme HamsterTrackin'

JUST IN: Dup (Temporary HamsterTracker™ correspondent in Costa Rica), updated me on her HamsterTracker™ promotion tour today:

Extreme HamsterTrackin' in Costa Rica

Officially in on the paper

Even other pets are fans!

I still have to get exact details on the little critter in the cage. I am not really sure it that's also a hamster.

HamsterTracker™ shouts to Dup!

Thanks for your HamsterTracker™ work during your vacation!

More: Extreme HamsterTrackin'.

Friday, April 7, 2006 - day 295 - current treadmill total: 385,268.84 meters! (22:30 CET)

Lucy's being a great hostes!

Lucy just loves guests/visitors, online or 'realtime'.
Some though, get special attention by Lucy;

Picture of my hamster Lucy in the foreground and Jonne in the background!

Picture of my hamster Lucy in the foreground and Jonne in the background!

" He dude, do you also have a website? " - Lucy (and Jonne in the background!)

Exceptional to observe that Lucy is sooo lovingly tame!
HamsterTracker™ shouts to Jonne, for helping to point this out!

Thursday, April 6, 2006 - day 294 - current treadmill total: 384,781.22 meters! (17:30 CET)

More Extreme HamsterTrackin'

JUST IN: Linda and Sanne (HamsterTracker™ correspondents in Beijing), updated me on their HamsterTracker™ promotion tour today:

Extreme HamsterTrackin' in Beijing

HamsterTracker(tm) Photograph made in China.

Lucy promotion by Sanne and a Chinese policeman

Here's Sanne and an official Chinese Policeman.

Beijing Market

A very nice market-lady, marketing Lucy!

HamsterTracker(tm) Photograph made in China.

Lucy promotion on a cart on a market of Beijing.

Phone home

Lucy promotion in a Beijing public phone.

No one has called (yet)!

HamsterTracker™ shouts to Linda, Sanne, the Policeman and the nice market(ing) lady!

More info: Extreme HamsterTrackin' (in China).

Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - day 293 - current treadmill total: 383,996.78 meters! (18:00 CET)

Serving Lucy a Micro-Cheeseburger

Yesterday (see article below this one) I wrote a HOWTO on creating a Micro-(Cheese/Ham)Burger.

See also the new page: Cookin' 4 Lucy

Lucy was extremely fast when she discovered her Micro-Cheeseburger.

Therefore, sadly, not all photographs are in focus...

Micro Hamburger for your hamster.

Waiting for the princess...

Picture of my hamster Lucy enjoying her Micro-Cheeseburger.

Once Lucy noticed, she came runnin'

Picture of my hamster Lucy enjoying her Micro-Cheeseburger.

This is a split second before she had a bite

Picture of my hamster Lucy enjoying her Micro-Cheeseburger.

This is a split second later!

YES! Lucy loves it!

I will do this again!
Even though she ate her Cheeseburger top down, and left some greens initially
(she ate those later, 'cause they're all gone now!).

Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - day 292 - current treadmill total: 383,798.78 meters! (18:10 CET)

HOWTO: Make Micro-Burgers for your hamster

I've been thinking about this for quite some time now. And I finally decided to give it a go.

Today I bought an apple corer (€ 1.59). That makes the following recipe easier to create:

Ingredients; (fresh-) Bread, (cooked-) Ham, (Gouda-) Cheese and a small bit of fresh parsley.

Micro Hamburger for your hamster.

Use Apple Corer to cut out two round pieces of bread:

Micro Hamburger for your hamster.

Do the same with a single (thinly) slice(d) piece of ham:

Micro Hamburger for your hamster.

Use a bit of parsley (for the green stuff) and stack it all carefully:

Micro Hamburger for your hamster.

Optionally you can add some cheese (If you desire Micro-Cheeseburgers):

Micro Cheeseburger for your hamster.

Stack it carefully:

Micro Cheeseburger for your hamster.

Ready for serving!

I hope that my littl' Lucy likes it, right now she's still sleeping...

Costs if you don't like ham & cheese sandwiches, and if you make only one Micro-burger:

Apple corer: € 1.59
Half a loaf of Bread: : € 0,63
Gouda cheese: € 1.70
Cooked Ham: € 2.12

Total: € 6.04 or € 4.45 if you already have an apple corer.

I've decided not to include this on Lucy's Expenses, simply because I don't mind a ham & cheese sandwich with a few holes!

To be continued...

Monday, April 3, 2006 - day 291 - current treadmill total: 383,798.00 meters! (17:40 CET)

Should I clean this up right now?

Springime has really gotten to me, I am actually wondering if I can make this a bit tidier:
The inside of the cage is ok, but the stuff that surrounds it...

Picture of the mess around Lucy's cage.

I guess it's a good excuse to want to have some fun with Lucy, then I don't really have to worry about it ...

Update: (18:45 CET)
Picture of the mess around Lucy's cage, all cleared up!

My camera needed recharging, therefore all the time in the wold to clear up this mess!

The rock, is obsidian, that's vulcanic and stuff!
This was donated by Sandra after her Extreme HamsterTrackin' in Iceland adventure.

Sunday, April 2, 2006 - day 290 - current treadmill total: 382,933.28 meters! (19:40 CET)

Offtopic: Springtime!

I shot the next photograph in my front garden. I just love spring time, and needed to share:

Picture of some flowers in my front garden.

Saturday, April 1, 2006 - day 289 - current treadmill total: 382,091.09 meters! (9:25 CET)

Lucy's ordering

Lucy knows how to get my attention:

Picture of my hamster Lucy ordering dinner.

" Four big salads please... " - Lucy

Will that be Visa or HamsterCard?

Thursday, March 29, 2006 - day 287 - current treadmill total: 381,267.97 meters! (16:50 CET)

Daylight saving time

I just love it that last weekend, we switched to daylight saving time (DST).
It gives a wonderfull oportunity to shoot some pictures using natural light.

Lucy gets up earlier these last few days.
Although not right now, at this time of writing.

Right now I think I know what Lucy is dreaming about:

Picture of my hamster Lucy in deep sleep.

Picture of my hamster Lucy in deep sleep.

... - Lucy

Dreaming of:

Picture of my hamster Lucy running around in her Explorer Ball.

Jippeeeeeee! - Lucy

Wednesday, March 28, 2006 - day 286 - current treadmill total: 380,593.94 meters! (19:00 CET)

Maintenance day

I have got a mail today from Denmark, Heidi wanted to know if there was something wrong with the RSS feed.
It seems that a feedreader called RSS-Bandit, doesn't accept the feed.

So I started checking

I discovered that the HamsterTracker™ server lagged a solid 6 hours behind. Even with the Atomic clock software.
It has been quite a while since I rebooted, (the system running 24/7). So I guess a reset was in order!
Therefore today I took the server offline for an approximate 20 minutes.
Dusting it off, making it look new again and rebooting.

I also found that, though still valid, the feed contains a two warnings, that might be the cause of Heidi's RSS-problems.
This one still needs a bit of work on my side... I suppose... I need to find a link to the RSS-Bandit software, download it and test myself...

Meanwhile, Lucy has something else on her mind:

Picture of my hamster Lucy roaring!

ROARRRR! - Lucy

HamsterTracker™ shouts, uuhh, I mean, ROARRR's, to Heidi in Denmark!

Thank you for pointing it out!

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - day 285 - current treadmill total: 379,801.53 meters! (16:40 CET)

Lucy's pouching a little BIG treat

I gave Lucy a Vitakraft Rondis treat.
These are approximately 15 - 20 mm in size.
I was fortunate enough to shoot the following two photographs:
Picture of my hamster Lucy with a pouch stuffed with Vitakraft Rondis.

Picture of my hamster Lucy with a pouch stuffed with Vitakraft Rondis.

Aaai, juffft love feeeese! - Lucy

Monday, March 27, 2006 - day 284 - current treadmill total: 379,512.38 meters! (16:30 CET)

Lucy's Statistical Graphs update

Here's an update of Lucy's latest statistical graphs.

My hamster Lucy lastest statistical graph.

HamsterTracker™ Server crashes:
Day: 12, 30, 44, 57, 67, 68, 76, 90, 91, 96, 99, 116, 182

My hamster Lucy treadmill time graph.

Total Distance Trend Graph:

Friday, March 24, 2006 - day 281 - current treadmill total: 377,745.00 meters! (17:40 CET)

Lucy's tabletop photo shoot

Who needs expensive studio's when you've got a hamster and a coffee-table?
Lucy actually posed for quite a while during this shoot:

Picture of my hamster Lucy engaged in a tabletop photo shoot.

Picture of my hamster Lucy engaged in a tabletop photo shoot.

Picture of my hamster Lucy engaged in a tabletop photo shoot and demanding a raise in salary.

Then Lucy demanded a raise in pay:

( which she ofcourse got, by the way! )

" Two pineseeds per photo extra and 5 more minutes in the Explorer ball per shoot!
Or else I am not going to face the camera again! " - Lucy

Thursday, March 23, 2006 - day 280 - current treadmill total: 377,446.59 meters! (18:25 CET)

Lucy wants to meet you

I caught Lucy practising her Hello's.

Maybe it's because of the all the extra attention she's been getting by the new Webcam no. 5 I've just recently installed.

Picture of my hamster Lucy practicing her hello's.

Picture of my hamster Lucy practicing her hello's.

" Hi my name is ... " - Lucy

Picture of Lucy expressing her innocent look.

" Why don't you tell me all about you,
by signing my Guestbook !
Hmmm, why don't ya? " - Lucy

I've also updated the Best of Lucy's pictures page.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - day 279 - current treadmill total: 377,361.22 meters! (17:40 CET)

Lucy the TP-roll killer

I asked Lucy if she was responsible for them T(oilet)P(aper)-roll destruction in her cage

Picture of Lucy when I was talking to her.

" Who?... What?... Xcuse me?... Are you talking to me? " - Lucy

Then she gave me her 'innocent look'

" Dunno what you're talking about! Me and TP-rolls...
Can I come out and play now? " - Lucy

Ofcourse she got her wish!
And I also got mine; I was hoping she wanted to come out and play! Which by the way, Lucy rarely refuses!

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