In a bad attempt to link last week’s post about The Wire, and to highlight one of the pitfalls of PC ownership, I’d like to talk very very briefly, before the return to proper service tomorrow about wires.

Seriously, why so many damned wires required for all the bits and bobs of the modern PC? It seems that everything from the mouse to the speakers come with at least 17 different wires in order for you to enjoy all the wonderful wonders of modern technology.

The only machines which are coming close to getting it right, I hate to say it, are the Apple Macs. Or more precisely, the IMac. Pretty much everything is in the one package, the mouse and keyboard are wireless, and then you’ve just got the power lead and maybe also a lovely shiny network cable.

But this doesn’t translate well to full blown tower-based systems, where the machine requires its own power plant, and UN weapon inspectors often wander around tutting about various safety procedures being ignored.

Surely people in the PC world such as it stands today, can do much better, maybe wireless cabling for the monitors as well as the mouse and keyboards, which have to be honest, have not been the best in the world, owing to such dwindling battery life, that you’d be better off trying to raise the dead, rather that type another word as it dies in agony.

This concludes today’s lesson kids. Join us next time, where we learn that mixing old people’s drugs is not always funny.