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Work Report - May 2010

Consequences

May 8th 2010 05:27
A spirometer
is an apparatus for measuring the volume of air inspired and expired by the lungs, so Wikipedia informs me.

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Wires or wire-less

May 8th 2010 05:08
If you wanted to find a job - yes, right now - one that wouldn't cost you anything much to set up and would keep you busy till the cows come home, then all you'd have to do would be to knock on people's doors and ask them if they'd like you to sort out the wires connecting their
electrician's nightmare - taken by mike crowl
computer and all its peripherals, and do it in such a way that next time they had to move the computer or figure out which wire connects to what they'd be able to do it in a matter of moments.

Until we all go wireless, this is always going to be a major task. Years ago I worked in the International Telephone Exchange in London. This was long before fibre and push-button phones. Every night as we went to work we'd pass one part of the wiring section: it was a mass of wires. It wasn't exactly a tangle, but you'd have had to have been a very experienced technician to find your way through them


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