If you're like most self-respecting geeks, there's probably some place in your house where you've got wires going everywhere. Every gadget needs power eventually, so there's usually a charger somewhere. Or if you're talking computers, there's wires going between all of the constituent parts.

As someone who works at home and has a lot of computers for work reasons, and had to recently move, I had the unpleasant job of actually untangling my wired gadget mess. Now I'm trying to be smarter about how I run all these wires around, but it's really hard to know what will work and what won't.

Gadget Extra provides some interesting tips on how to manage the wire mess. I like the pegboard idea, but that only seems to work if you can centralize your gadgets. It's not entirely practical in my situation given the kinds of gadgets I deal with, but maybe there's something here for you.