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| bio | website | morestuffabout.net |
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| location | Stroud, United Kingdom | |
| age | 48 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 10 months |
| seen | Apr 2 at 10:12 | |
| stats | profile views | 55 |
I'm a technologist available for hire in the West of England.
I've done a few different things over the last few years: currently I'm at Global Radio in Reading, having fun with AWS and some frankly strange quadratic equations. Previously I was with Nokia Entertainment in Bristol, optimising how music files are ingested and transcoded.
It's not all music: before that I worked with www.doccom.me, helping doctors communicate with each other, creating a mobile version of their site and adding an OData API.
And before that, amongst other things, I was the Product Marketing Manager in Europe for Borland Delphi.
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Dec 11 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Sep 12 |
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How should we sand and treat our Victorian floorboards? Agree with the testing plan: helps to use the same kind of wood, too. Most houses have either pine or oak boards. |
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Sep 12 |
answered | What are my options for replacing 50W GU10 lightbulbs? |
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Sep 12 |
answered | How should we sand and treat our Victorian floorboards? |
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Aug 19 |
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Why would you use copper over CPVC or PEX? Also: copper looks better on an exposed run. |
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Aug 18 |
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What kind of screws for crawl space vents? A photo might help. Into what does the vent screw? |
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Aug 17 |
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How should I prepare damaged plaster for painting? Sounds like you need someone else - a plasterer can expect to have several jobs on the go at once. |
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Aug 17 |
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How should I prepare damaged plaster for painting? Plaster is cheap, it's the labour that costs. My work was for a hall, not a stairwell, which is much harder to get to - your plasterer will most likely be spending most of his time putting up an access platform, then moving it! £400 sounds on the steep side but not out of the question, so yes, keep looking... |
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Aug 16 |
answered | How should I prepare damaged plaster for painting? |
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Aug 16 |
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Can I use a 50 Hz device in a 60 Hz power frequency? That sounds like a jolly good idea! |
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Aug 16 |
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Should I hire an architect to design my house? @ChrisF - actually not true, but you'll have a /much/ easier time of it in the UK if you /do/ have an architect or draughtsman draw up plans. If the work is simple and obvious a planning committee will generally be fine with plans drawn up by a householder. |
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Aug 15 |
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What are the steps for landscaping a lawn? @Jan - totally. I've enjoyed the gardening lark as it's a great contrast to the day job. |
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Aug 13 |
answered | What are the steps for landscaping a lawn? |
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Aug 12 |
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Are SharkBite plumbing connectors as reliable as soldered connectors? See also diy.stackexchange.com/questions/207/…. |
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Aug 12 |
answered | Are SharkBite plumbing connectors as reliable as soldered connectors? |
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Aug 11 |
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Can you paint a popcorn ceiling? Getting in a professional plasterer to skim the ceiling over the top of the popcorn is another option - one that may well be less expensive than you think. |
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Aug 11 |
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Can I use a 50 Hz device in a 60 Hz power frequency? I'm not sure about this: intuition tells me that the /average/ power over time should be the same, and the fifty-cycles-per-second won't make a difference for heating elements. But I don't know for sure: any electrical engineers care to comment? |
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Aug 10 |
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Can I use a 50 Hz device in a 60 Hz power frequency? I knew there was an odd taste to my beverage this morning! Agree, I don't think there's anything fancy going on there. You'll most likely find the label is CE stamped, and if so the manufacturer won't have gone through the process of having it approved for 60Hz usage in the EU - that's mighty expensive for them to do. Easier to print a different set of labels. |
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Aug 10 |
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Can I use a 50 Hz device in a 60 Hz power frequency? That transformer won't change the frequency, just the voltage - so not much use, I fear. |
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Aug 10 |
answered | Can I use a 50 Hz device in a 60 Hz power frequency? |
