At 2 am a few weeks ago, I was sitting in my office with a phone line wrapped around my neck, up to my elbows in various power cables and connections cords, trying my best not to slam my fists on the desk in frustration.
How, pray tell, did you find yourself in this awkward position, you ask? Well, 520 square feet and two bedrooms may be a lot of space for one person by Hong Kong standards, but us geeks need a little more elbow room than most.
You say you find it difficult to stuff your stuff into your overpriced abode.
But just think about what I have to deal with. Geeks have special problems.
Its not just me that lives here, after all. There is me, my computer, 17-inch monitor, my scanner, my printer, my removable media hard drive, my modem, and a fairly large pair of speakers.
Throw in all of the usual stuff that one needs to get by these days, a bed big enough to comfortably accommodate my 190-centimetre frame, a laser disk player, stereo, espresso maker and drawer filled with unused 10Base-2 transceivers and RCA cables, and suddenly things get pretty damn crowded.