Recent content by securespark

Without question.

Everything about you but your legs, by all accounts... ;)

Seen these a few times in my career and was racking my brains trying to remember who made these. An odd way to retain the cable drop... Erm....at least they connected the CPC. Woe-betide anyone who hangs a picture above the rad...!

I seem to remember at one of the training centres I visited once, they had an extension lead with some kind of resistor set up so an RCD test on anything connected to that extension lead would not trip the one back at the board. Helpfully, I can't remember what it was though.

Is Zinsser BIN any good?

In reality, the voltage didn't really change all that much. In my entire career, I never had anything outside the low end of the scales, the lowest being high 220s. I did have a couple exceed the top limit. Attending faults, I've had a few floating neutrals on DNO supplies resulting in...

Chewy is a funny name for a dog.

Or a PI number? ;)

You must be thinking of BT Cellnet and Racal-Vodafone, both of whom were installing infrastructure in 1984, but didn't have networks available to the public until very early 1985. In fact, Ernie Wise made the first televised mobile call on 1 January in London to Voda headquarters in Newbury. I...

Wow! I've been porting my mobile numbers around since 1997! Have you never swapped a mobile number from one mobile provider to another?

Matt, I think it's absolutely fantastic you've been able to pull yourself out of a hole after a devastating loss that quite obviously knocked you for six. It's well worth thinking about something that you enjoy doing, as that will make a big difference to something you're doing for work. Do you...

I remember you saying you did some stuff with your bro and you got on really well with him. I would take this opportunity that has come your way. Yes, I know you're further away from your kid daughter, BUT, she's going away anyway for a year or so and you can stay in touch over the interwebby...

Virgin have a really bad rep for CS. Even when their customers work for them... I'd absolutely hate to lose my landline number. I chose it specially when we moved to a different exchange 27 years ago. Imagine you were a business and they lost your number. But it's much easier to move mobile...

That's what my family call me... :oops:

Happy birthday Mrs Mott!