{"id":21523,"date":"2011-04-19T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=21523"},"modified":"2011-04-19T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:17:59","slug":"dodge-retort-cable-clutter-reflects-a-tethered-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/dodge-retort-cable-clutter-reflects-a-tethered-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodge Retort: Cable clutter reflects a tethered world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/johnwp.jpg\" alt=\"john\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7167 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By John Dodge<\/p>\n<p>In this `not as wireless a world as we like to think,&#8217; I am being strangled by cables. I trip over ones around my desk and just organized a tangle of more than 200-250 cables that have accumulated over the years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1903\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dodgeretort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_1926.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1903\" title=\"IMG_1926\" src=\"http:\/\/dodgeretort.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_1926-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>cable hairball<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Call it cable clutter. USB, audio and video, Firewire, power cords, RJ45, coax, serial cables&#8230;and more than 40 DIFFERENT power supplies and cables.<\/p>\n<p>Power supplies are particularly annoying because they are all different, restricted to working with a single gadget or computer model.  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