I try to keep my office tidy, and with the U-shaped Ikea desk I have, all the cables running from PC to wall are exposed making it all too easy for things to look messy. Baseboard cable clips were a good solution I found to allow me to group power, networking, USB, and other types of cables together. The problem is that the Belkin clips I purchased aren’t strong enough - they seem designed for only a couple of thin, light cables. Over the past year since I installed them they’ve all fallen off, looking like this:

(baseboard dust - gross!)

Essentially being a problem of adhesive strength versus the stress the cables place on the clip, as each one fell off I re-attached it to the wall with Krazy Glue. That worked for a few weeks, but all of them fell off again - this time leaving the adhesive pad on the wall. What I’m looking for is some sort of cable clip that’s much stronger: I’m thinking something that screws into the drywall, something that will hold the cables in place and not fall off. Has anyone heard of such a thing? All my Google searches have been in vain…

This is how I felt from Sunday afternoon to Monday night:

(photographer bgaras2001, photo taken from this Smugmug contest)

Today I’m finally feeling better, but on Sunday I was puking my guts out and I felt like dying. It’s one thing to have a cold or a headache, it’s quite another to have a fever and have your whole body throwing a coups d’état. As I was aching I couldn’t help but think about what it would be like to be undergoing chemotherapy, suffering from cancer, or any other ailment that made you feel absolutely horrible, all of the time. God willing, I’ll never have to go through anything like that - but suffering, even for a brief period of time, gives you some small insight into the life that others who suffer on a regular basis go through.

I’m at about 80% normalcy today, so I’m hoping so get that HTC Touch video review finished and queue up two articles I wrote for Zune Thoughts. So much work to do!