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[Scruff]

Battery life on USB ups

... It doesn't work over Bluetooth, just WiFi

[DoctorStrangelove]

Bit more gardening done. :sweat:

Tea: Tesco chunky battered haddock, really oily, sufficient to fry the potato slices in, orange segments and custard, the last of Sunday's rice pud, very nice, 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

Entertainment: Was going to watch the Little Ships thing on BBC2 at 19:00 until I found that Dan Snow did it.

The Beiderbecke Affair E4.

Timeless S1 E4 with proper Nazis IIRC.

Quatermass (1979) E2 where the good professor did more stuff.

[ladymuck]

Took a walk up to the high street and along. Quite busy out. Almost feels normal except people are being nice to each other.

They were giving out face masks at Whole Foods.

[ladymuck]

This was a very interesting read. People don't realise how bad Polio could be and the parallels with current events are quite striking.


The man in the iron lung | Society | The Guardian

[covbob]

Evening all. Bit sticky and warm here - just clouding over a little.

Feeling a bit better today after a couple of freak outs last week.

Had an interesting chat with a pimp I've done business with several times before this afternoon. Instead of shutting him down and telling him I'm busy I broached the subject of doing his contract around my current (not too demanding) WFH contract which is mostly done at times when the Septics are awake.

I think there might be the kernel of an idea forming in my head now. Need to sleep on it but the possibility of trying to run multiple clients concurrently is something which had never occurred to me before. Have any of you guys managed it?

[covbob]

And above all I need a Plan B for when I finally get sick of networks - which might not be too long away now.

[vetran]

This was a very interesting read. People don't realise how bad Polio could be and the parallels with current events are quite striking.


The man in the iron lung | Society | The Guardian

Actually we were talking about the other day with the MIL. She had a mild case and despite the best doctors ended up with weakened leg. Plenty of people had it far worse.

[NickFitz]

This was a very interesting read. People don't realise how bad Polio could be and the parallels with current events are quite striking.


The man in the iron lung | Society | The Guardian

That was excellent, thanks

[ladymuck]

I think there might be the kernel of an idea forming in my head now. Need to sleep on it but the possibility of trying to run multiple clients concurrently is something which had never occurred to me before. Have any of you guys managed it?

Yep. I've done it. Works best with clients who are deliverables focussed rather than expecting you to do a certain number of hours. WFH at the moment makes it a lot easier to deal with those for the forseeable. I ran three clients all from home without any of them getting the hump and all work being delivered on time. It only lasted six months, which was plenty enough as I'm not sure I'd want to do 2.5 jobs for much longer than that.

You do need time management and prioritisation skills and be prepared to work some long days when the planets fall out of alignment and suddenly everything is needed all on the same day. If you managed time and priorities as best you can, it won't happen all that often but if can, it will.

[ladymuck]

That was excellent, thanks

I almost sent it to you for inclusion in Monday Links but worried that the foamy mouthed might baulk at a grauniad link and you'd lose readers