"Hi all, I have finally got round to updating the KAT5 website. It now includes a brief history on the development of KAT5 and there is information on feeding multiple receivers from one transmitter... and... PICTURES!"
It's five o'clock in the morning. The alarm beeps to life and a soft female voice with an American accent comes over the speakers. "I'm waking you 30 minutes early because heavy rain has developed delaying traffic to the airport...
In about 1996 I stumbled across a website explaining how it was possible to control lights and appliances from a PC without having to run any extra cabling...
"I bought my first house at 18, moved into a slightly biggger place at about 23 and later decided to build a house since they lacked "gadgets", see there I was one day at work, a lunch hour of course you understand, surfing. I read an article about X10 and thought how amazing it was that you could turn on and off lights without a switch, without getting up off my backside, it appealed........ "