So much for laptops freeing up desk space and removing cable clutter: despite using wi-fi, my Powerbook’s currently sitting at the centre of a spaghetti junction of cabling. There’s the adapter for the second monitor, the firewire cable to the ipod, a line-in for the phone recorder, the USB connection for the digicam, the power cable, the firewire cable to the external hard disk, the line-out to the speakers, and the usb cable to the hub, which in turn hooks up to the printer, the keyboard and the wireless mouse.