It's amazing how wide the range of mortgage rates has been over the last 40 years, from 15% in 1989 (weeks after I bought my first house) to about 1% at times since. I think the lowering of rates as … (View Post)

I once saw an advert in new scientist for someone to teach electronics in a non-racist, non-sexist way. It was probably in the 80s and I think for a college in Harringay. I always wondered how they w… (View Post)

Really? I did some work on PoW restoration, or rather I had a team working for me working on it. An interesting project. I have tended to work on large scale public sector IT projects, including reco… (View Post)

While that is all theoretically possible with a hand crafted device snuck into someone's house, it's not reality. A typical house would have a gas meter, electric meter, home display and a communicat… (View Post)

Interesting. I have always wondered whether my brain chemistry is kind of like depressed people but the other way around. I'm almost always happy and if things go wrong, there is always plan B, or C … (View Post)