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Here are some things about me or by me or whatever; the informal and always-out-of-date 5-minute guide to DHD!

• My big project is OpenTRV, now funded as Vestemi. It has the modest aim of cutting the UK's entire carbon footprint by 10% (and/or Europe's by 8%) at low cost. The aim is halving space heating costs, especially for homes, in a simple and fiddle-free way! (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).
• See my contract work and UK travel info quick reference sheets.
• 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)
  • SlashDot ("news for nerds")
  • BBC News (world news)
  • Dilbert (tech cartoon)
  • Madam&Eve (South African life cartoon)
  • xkcd (tech cartoon)
  • my multimedia gallery
• 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.
• My CV.
• My mail address for personal mail is d@hd.org.
• Also see: @DamonHD, LinkedIn, ORCID.

Damon

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