Wires. Lots of obstinate, obdurate, scrambled, tangled wires.
It seems that no matter what steps you take, given two wires in close proximity, they will end up as one, apparently inseparable, inclined to the intertwine.
I’ve just been through a box of them. Hell for me? A room full of leads, wires and power supplies of arbitrary length, thickness and entanglement to unravel.
It’s even worse when power supplies with thin leads enter the fray. They take special delight in multicoiling around thicker wires, as if some intelligent controller in the PSU was trying to become an electric motor through sheer force of ill will.
Well bollocks to all that, I’ve come up with an answer. I used to use masking tape to keep wires coiled, but I’ve found that if you leave them alone for a while, the tape leaves a mucky residue which tends to smear down the length of the lead. So what I did tonight was wrap a small piece of masking tape inside out around the cable, so that the sticky side was facing out, not touching any part of the cable. Then tearing another piece of masking tape off, I’d cover the sticky bit. Voila! Instant, removable cable-tie.
The best solution I’ve had to longer cables was to hammer a load of nails into the wall and then coil the longer cables around the nails. I found that I could get two or sometimes three jack leads on a nail without them getting knotted. It doesn’t look particularly pleasing to the eye though.
For now, my cables are comfortably coiled.
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Anonymous 07.21.05 at 10:11 pm
I have never read such a load of pompous, self-effacing, hypocritical, racist, pious bulls**t.
Stop blaming and pointing the finger and maybe come up with some solutions. The’muslim world’? what the hell is that? We all live in the same world and no religion has the right to claim part of it for themselves. That is what all this trouble is about. Stop thinking that you are muslims and join the human race. All these comments about who committed the most war crimes, which governments killed the most people etc. do you really think that these comments are helpful? Anyone idiot can apportion blame, but only good people can forgive. Which attitude do you think might lead to a more peaceful world? Difficult one is it?
Shahid 07.21.05 at 10:20 pm
Oh - and you have chosen forgiveness have you?
Shahid 07.21.05 at 10:28 pm
By the way - feel free to swear without the self-censorship. Talking of “self” - you do realise I hope that “pompous” and “self-effacing” are mutually incompatible? Hypocritical? How? Racist? Erm, the only racists are the two a day swearing at me for walking or cycling in my home town. So fuck off.
Instead of slagging me off anonymously, why don’t you offer some solutions yourself?
Anonymous 07.21.05 at 10:38 pm
the solution is simple, I forgive you !!
Anonymous 07.21.05 at 10:45 pm
if you think the only racists are the two a day who swear at you, you need to join the real world. You have a huge chip on your shoulder and can’t see the injustices that all of us put up with on a daily basis, but then get on with our lives. It’s part of being an adult. You should try it one day.
Shahid 07.21.05 at 10:53 pm
Fair comment.
I’m not sure you’re the same person who’s put all the anonymous comments up, but if you are, then what have I done to you to require your forgiveness?
I do live in the real world, I can assure you. My blog is hugely trivial in the greater scheme of things. I realise that. You are entitled to your opinion and I welcome it. Thank you.
Anonymous 07.21.05 at 11:07 pm
I have only posted two previous comments and to be honest I was winding you up to prove a point, however, isn’t it pleasant to be civil rather than taking opposing stances and attacking each other. This ‘polarising’ is a facet of human nature and is evident in trivial things such as football or music. I do feel offended by some of your comments and I also feel threatened by what I have seen in the news and on the streets but I try not to let that cloud my judgement. I like to think that I treat everyone with respect and can only hope that others will treat me in the same. The constant rhetoric and drum banging about injustices only further divide and fragment an already divided society. We should concentrate on our similarities rather than the differences.
Shahid 07.21.05 at 11:14 pm
Well, thank you for your comments - I appreciate them.
Perhaps I have dropped the ball recently and will try to be a bit more human. I am capable of humanity - lol.
Don’t take my blog too seriously. I don’t.