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An IT journalist's desk - part I

With the amount of kit that gets sent in to the office each day it's impossible to keep a tidy desk.

To illustrate this, we're taking photos of desks in the PCW office and annotating the interesting and not-so-interesting stuff. I drew the short straw, so my desk is up first...

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WILL'S DESK:
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1- No, sadly it's not a tin full of Corel paint, but just a marketing gimmick for the newly released Painter X.

2- A Bluetooth GPS receiver from Keomo, which I really should get round to testing since it's been here for almost 8 months now. However, we did review this Keomo one.

3- Yet another Sims review game through the post this morning. This time it's The Sims 2 Seasons Update - great.

4- A Terratec remote control that perhaps should have been sent back with whatever it came in with.

5- Standard issue PCW Dell PC, although the integrated graphics has been replaced by something Nvidia forgot to pick up.

6- Hercules Blog Webcam. According to the box it's travelling zoom gives the impression of being filmed by a cameraman - make that a drunken cameraman. Review coming soon. Honest.

7- A second, rather shabby looking CTX monitor. Despite being hooked up to my PC, I simply never switch it on, which is odd.

8- You can't see it, but my Pret Hot Salt Beef Wrap exploded and dribbled a cheesy substance into my keyboard today. Thankfully, Cherry visited us yesterday and left a gaggle of replacement keyboards.

9- A free-sample jar of Lloyd Grossman Tomato & Chilli sauce thrown in my face at Victoria station last year - unused.

10- A page for the next issue of the magazine that needs proof-reading and sending back to production - something I'd best sort out this afternoon or I'll be in trouble.

11- Two Blu-ray discs sent to me from TDK as a rather bizarre Valentines gift - shame they couldn't have stretched to an actual Blu-ray drive to use them on.

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