{"id":1510,"date":"2011-01-25T00:50:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T00:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2011-01-25T00:50:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T00:50:58","slug":"use-rain-gutters-to-wrangle-under-desk-wires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/25\/use-rain-gutters-to-wrangle-under-desk-wires\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Rain Gutters to Wrangle Under-Desk Wires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is very familiar to me, both at home and at work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/062309_tf_deskgutter11.jpg?w=1165\" alt=\"062309_tf_deskgutter1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wires everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>So, what about making it look like this?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/062309_tf_deskgutter21.jpg?w=1165\" alt=\"062309_tf_deskgutter2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After picking up a new <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Desk\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desk\">desk<\/a>, Seandavid010 sought out to solve he and his wife&#8217;s messy wire problem. He vaguely remembered reading about someone else using rain gutters to win the battle against desk wires and decided to try it himself. After a few trips to his local DIY store totalling $30, he crafted his own wire basin under his desk in around 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/062309_tf_deskgutter3.jpg?w=1165\" alt=\"062309_tf_deskgutter3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s all tucked in the gutters? Some <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Power strip\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_strip\">power strips<\/a>, a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Wireless router\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wireless_router\">wireless router<\/a>, a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cable modem\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cable_modem\">cable modem<\/a>, usb cables and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Power cord\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Power_cord\">power cords<\/a> for two Macbooks. And it&#8217;s no longer unsightly and now completely out-of-sight.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5299994\/rain-gutters-as-cable-management-tools\" target=\"_blank\">Lifehacker<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very familiar to me, both at home and at work. Wires everywhere. So, what about making it look like this? After picking up a new desk, Seandavid010 sought out to solve he and his wife&#8217;s messy wire problem. He vaguely remembered reading about someone else using rain gutters to win the battle against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,17,25],"tags":[98,551,558,559,790,912,951,1495,1497,1583,1785,1867,2100,2254,2255,2509,2525,2544,2875,3281,3313],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-awesomeness","category-linkage","category-photographs","tag-98","tag-business","tag-cable-modem","tag-cables","tag-cords","tag-desk","tag-diy","tag-ikea","tag-illinois","tag-january","tag-lifehacker","tag-management","tag-naperville-illinois","tag-organize","tag-organizing","tag-rain-gutter","tag-recycle","tag-repurpose","tag-storage","tag-wires","tag-wrangle","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-om","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}