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OT Invisibility Cloak
HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp, based in British Columbia, said its new applications related to their Quantum Stealth technology - otherwise known as the Invisibility Cloak. HyperStealth...
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Outdoor steps and handrails
There was a very helpful thread on garden steps some months back: thanks to everyone who chipped in. One thing which didn't crop up then was this: I've looked at the online regs but can't find this...
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The Plank
Has this been posted before? This is a pantomime about two construction workers, who discover that a plank is missing from the floor they are just building. They discover that two children have taken...
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Insulating utility room
About 25 years ago we had a small utility room built on to our kitchen. Its only about 1.5m x 1.5m internally and two of the four walls are part of the existing house, i.e cavity brick/block. The...
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Thanks to rain...
I can now barely achieve 1Mbps download speed. Every three hours or so... The rest of the time nothing.
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OT Rain.
We have had 26 hours of continuous rain here. W.Midlands. Must be even worse in Wales.
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Wow ! 3D Acoustics ...
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OT - Groundwater reports
<> I was wondering how the continued rainfall was affecting the groundwater levels; specifically if we were at near normal levels or better. The linked site seems to have loads of useful information....
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Restore a 60 year old Egg Tempera Painting
It is mine. I painted it in around 1955. It is a portrait of The Queen. It was never hung but eventually stored in our attic. At the time I was painting quite a bit but could not afford a decent...
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Health! Warning of a secretary of the order of dentists
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Unstable Salus
My recently upgraded central heating is controlled by a Salus programmable wireless thermostat. It seems to work well despite being tiresome to programme as it has too many on/off periods pre set. Its...
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‘Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire’ Review: The Enlightened Adventurer
?Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire? Review: The Enlightened Adventurer Sir Walter Ralegh was a swashbuckling pirate, poet, colonizer and courtier who founded a doomed settlement on the North Carolina...
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Fixing the wiring of a phone socket
A friend's new puppy bit through a telephone cable, and she doesn't have a dialling tone any more, and the house phone doesn't work. She asked me to have a look, so am planning to drop by tomorrow to...
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Loft insulation and gas boiler flues.
This summer I had a new gas boiler installation in an airing cupboard near the centre of the first floor. Flue goes into the loft space and across to a gable end. Having just been up into the loft I...
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OT: how to find out about traffic incidents on a certain stretch of road
Apologies for an OT request (at least it's not politics or religion!), but I need to find out what incidents have occurred on a stretch of road in the past 5 or 6 years and don't know how to start. A...
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