Having been inspired by Lifehacker’s workspace show and tell, I’ve decided to organise my workspace a bit.

I have a quite deep, wooden desk with drawers which tend to fill with clutter. I’ve decided to feed a powerstrip through the back of one of the drawers so I can plug in two usb hubs and my MacBook power cable there, out of the way. I’ve also managed to organise a system for filing my papers (I hate paper, it should always be on screen and searchable!) loosely based on the GTD (Getting Things Done) meme.

One thing I’ve done is to mount a powerstrip to the back of the desk, so I lose some of the trailing cables. It still amazes me, though, how many wires a single office space can generate! There’s still a cluttered feeling to the desk, and there’s nothing on it aside from computing paraphanelia.

I’m planning to put some shelves behind the monitor—the desk is very deep—on which to place external hard-drive and other necessities. I’d like to hide the cables behind it somehow, so they aren’t trailing in any way. I’ve bundled all the cabling with wire ties, and fed most leads through the monitor back, creating a funnel. The overall appearance, though, is still a bit too ad-hoc or rustic or… I don’t know.

What do you think? What would you do with this desk space?

In an effort to share the good stuff in life, I’d like to add a sort of links page here. This is basically a bit about stuff I find interesting, satisfying, cool or otherwise noteworthy. They are not in any order and could include just about any kind of thing. In keeping with my lack of sorting tools and complete dearth of desire to hack WordPress anymore, I will not filter them in any way…

Union Hand-Roasted coffee is basically the best coffee available in the UK. It is roasted in London and available online. They express a passion for coffee which is admirable and shows completely in the product. They also embrace an admirable ethic in the selection and distrobution of their coffees and also focus in an incredibly interesting way on the education of coffee drinkers–without sounding patronising or arcane. In short, they ‘get’ coffee!

So, go and get some yourself. Online store here.

lifehacker is a blog about making life easier, more efficient and less troublesome. In general, the result is actually to give you something interesting to think about and a different way of approaching your day. Based on the idea of software ‘hackers’ making code better, this gives tips, tricks, advice and reviews to make everything better. lifehacker can be found here.

Stormhoek Wines from South Africa have a unique social marketing strategy and a very tasty product indeed. Their Pinotage is the only one I’ve been able to try due to local Tescos only stocking one, but it was delicious. their site’s definitely worth a look, and they have some very interesting content there too.