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Who is Nexus Publishing? Originally from a small town called Darlaston – about ten miles north of Birmingham – I moved to West Sussex about ten years ago to help develop one of the first online retailers. Having recently moved to Shropshire I am now enjoying the working from home life in a semi rural location. I have been a freelance writer and journalist for about fifteen years. Eight of them were spent doing various other jobs such as bookshop assistant, print finisher and returns clerk for a large library supplier, with the writing taking up evenings and any of my spare time. As you can see, much of my life so far has been spent working with books and publishing of one kind or another. My time as an employee came to a conclusion some six years ago with redundancy, so I took the opportunity – and the money – to see if I could survive as a full-time freelance writer. That was five years ago. There have been some lean times – just ask my wife, Joanne. But after tasting the freelance life, there’s no going back.

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HomeWorker Handy Tips No: 1

Friday, April 25th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Cable Tidy


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Take a look under your desk. If it’s anything like mine you’ll see a bird’s net of cables, USB hubs, power blocks and extension cables. Many of you will already read the Likehacker blog, but in this category of my blog I hope to offer some well-chosen handy tips that all homeworkers can benefit from.

This first tips seems to me to be the perfect solution for my cable overload problem. Every time I need to unplug something I can never remember which cable belongs to which device. I’ve experimented with sticking labels on plugs and also attaching tie-on parcel labels to cables, but nothing really worked.

So using empty CD-RW cases seems ideal as I can attach a label to each case that won’t peel or rub off. Only problem I can see is getting hold of enough CD-RW cases, as I don’t burn that many disks. Also, you may have a heat problem and potential data drop off if some of your cables aren’t shielded properly. If anyone has actually using this system, let me know if it works, especially if you’re mixing power and data cables in the same case.

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