Damon Hart-Davis: Home Page

Hi There!

This page will remain a work-in-progress...

Here are some things about me or by me or whatever; the informal and always-out-of-date 5-minute guide to DHD!

• I am working on a part-time PhD at the University of Surrey, attemping to ensure that the many millions of replacements of gas central heating boilers in UK dwellings before 2050 work as affectively as possible.
• OpenTRV was a big project. It had the modest aim of cutting the UK's entire carbon footprint by 10% (and/or Europe's by 8%) at low cost. The aim was halving space heating costs, especially for homes, in a simple and fiddle-free way! Now Radbot is in the hands of Secure Meters! (Trueman: "It's amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.")
• With a little effort, and no hardship, my family and home/office seems to have managed to cut down to ~33% of average 2007 UK household electricity and gas consumption and indeed as of 2010 we're roughly net "zero carbon" for them. I've had a lot of fun getting to understand a little better our energy consumption and how it might evolve in the future, with us even possibly going 'carbon-negative' and becoming net exporters of energy...
• I run ExNet Ltd, a company focussed on networked, distributed and parallel software based in the south-west of London (16 Willingham Way, Kingston-upon-Thames).
• As of 20070427 I was an accredited UK election observer, and used my new (not-quite-super) powers to photograph and video the Brighton and Hove May 2007 City Council election.
• I am a daddy twice over! See, for example, some dad's notes on my children.
• See my gallery of multimedia (mainly JPEGs) for Web sites; historically one of the most popular photo/art sites in the UK with several million vistors per year. One interesting aspect was developing and tuning Google's AdSense contextual ads.
• I give away some of the code I write in the hope that it will be useful to others and save a few wasted hours here and there... Remember: a month hacking code can often save an hour's reading and thinking!
• I find this public-domain list of the first 100,000 primes useful in day-to-day coding so I've put up my local copy.
• As well as looking after ExNet's Web site, I look after our family's.
• I am interested in precision network (NTP) timekeeping.
• I am a member of the Planetary Society because I believe we should support interplanetary research and exploration, including the SETI@home project and manned and unmanned exploration of space.
• Some of my favourite sites on the Net:
  • The Register (IT news)
  • BBC News (world news)
  • Madam&Eve (South African life cartoon)
  • xkcd (tech cartoon)
  • my multimedia gallery
• Some music genres that work for me: house, techno, (psy) trance, (liquid) drum and bass, electronica...
• I provide a little support to The Canon Collins Trust to help improve education in southern Africa.
• A school reunion written up in the local paper!
• Some anecdotes.
• Some memories.
• My CV.
• My mail address for personal mail is d@hd.org.
• Also see: a recent image, Mastodon @DamonHD, Mastodon @EarthOrgUK, Twitter @DamonHD, Twitter @EarthOrgUK, LinkedIn, YouTube, SoundCloud, Patreon, Ko-fi, Google Scholar, ORCID, at Univeristy of Surrey.

Damon

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