20 Feb
Fixing an ethernet wall socket
Somehow in nearly 40 years of wresting with electrical, telephonic and electronic hardware, I had managed to avoid working with punchdown blocks. I’ve hand-soldered connectors, crimped connections, hand-wired telephones, soldered and de-soldered circuit boards, operated the electric plant of a nuclear-powered submarine, snaked cables through walls, voids and plenums, but somehow was always somewhere else [...]
