The new format is a definite improvement, although Dave now looks a bit like a TV anchorman. Perhaps some portentous music and pointlessly swoopy glittery animation at the front? As for the shelves behind - if a bunch of scopes can be wired up to show key metrics in real time (hits/sec, comments/min, Dave's blood pressure, swear index, etc) then it'll be much more Star Trek and thus much more to my taste.
I do hope someone has the circ for the dimmer, or something like that. In a past life, I was part of a team doing comparative testing of UPSs, which is a seriously hard job and one we really did have to stop working on rather than finish. I learned (well, was exposed to) a ton of stuff on that project, including just how mad mains electricity looks in a large building filled with mid-90s vintage IT running off second-generation SMPSUs. It's a very hard environment to properly appreciate, let alone design for, especially for a chap whose previous PSU knowledge stopped at four diodes, a centre-tapped transformer, a couple of caps and an excuse-me.
Designing a half-kilowatt universal dimmer that isn't going to do something impolite seems to me to be a long-trousered job and a half. Some insight would be much appreciated.
R