I did something just like this last year after seeing the under desk version and it's really been a great solution. It's mounted right above the structured wiring panel which is too small for anything beyond a cable modem. If you can find it, use the PVC pegboard, it's a bit stronger and just seems cleaner overall.

@chuckportal: I posted some of the details of the build and materials used over on Flickr. But to answer your questions: glued and screwed, and the metal strips are called 'bonding strips' according to the guy at Lowes :) I'll post a couple pics of the underside of the desk on Flickr as well.

I just enable the Desktop toolbar, collapse it all the way so only the expand button shows and move it all the way over to the right.

@zarathustra: If I were starting over with 3 new monitors you can be they would match. Unfortunately this is 4 years worth of monitor purchases and all work just fine.

Thanks everyone for all of the nice comments! We didn't discover last year's Coolest Workspace Contest until after we finished this project. The Flickr group was a great opportunity to finally show off our space :)

I enjoy the process of designing a new site from scratch, and the more I do it the better I get. Templates have always been a good source of inspiration and current design trends, but I don't like the idea of someone else having a site nearly identical to one of mine. As other have said, it often comes down to budget,…

I take my truck to a local Jiffy Lube where the guys there are actually pretty cool and don't try to sell everything under the sun. But I also keep an excel spreadsheet with *everything* I have done to my truck and take that with me. I usually go in for a change somewhere between 4000 and 5000 miles, which for me is…

@jay-martin: I posted a couple of pics to the Lifehacker Tip Testers flickr group. My pegboard and the Velleman device are up there. I can't seem to locate the actual pics of the media cabinet and the wife is currently asleep on the couch, so snapping new pics is out for now.

I installed a pegboard on the wall of my laundry room right above the structured wiring panel. There is just enough room in the panel for a switch and the cable modem, so the NAS, PIX firewall and Linksys wireless access point went up on the pegboard along with a nice power strip.

The article mentions Hwy 179 through Sedona which is a gorgeous area, though a good portion of that road is currently under construction for widening. One bonus, the road passes right by a colorful dome house that was on HGTV's 'What's With That House?' :)

Not too long ago I submitted a feature request for an improvement to the email filters (to block those pesky url encoded googlepages spam domains). One of selectable options was 'Have Gmail do your laundry'. Is this feature still on the table?? ;-)

This works especially well for things like the Wii. Go think about it for a couple of days, and when you come back it will be out of stock again.

I have been supporting windows for the last 7 years and using it since Win95. During that time I have dabbled with various flavors of Linux with limited success. Though with each successive release it just keeps getting easier and easier to get into. I now do most of my personal computing on an Ubuntu 7.10 box, and…

I know this doesn't apply to most people, but I have consolidated my test environments (Win2k Server, Win2k3 Server, etc) into a single Ubuntu box running VMware. It's rare that I ever need more than one of these machines at a time, so resources aren't a problem and the performance hit has been minimal.

I'll get this one out of teh way...

I have been using a dual monitor setup for about a year now and recently upgraded my main screen to a 24", with the secondary being a 21" of the same height/vertical resolution. The 24" is especially helpful when working in Visual Studio, that extra bit of horizontal space makes a huge difference. The second monitor…

I am also in the multiple monitor camp. I actually just picked up a 24" yesterday to replace an older 17" and the difference is amazing. Now the 24" is the main screen, while the 21" is the secondary. As so many others have stated, this is a great setup when doing web development or any other programming work.

We did this once a couple of years back and it is a bit gimmicky, but did produce some good results. The best part about it though was the fact that our conference room had a 15 foot wall of windows with the reception area on the other side. We got some strange looks from passers by when they saw a bunch of people…

I agree that the price advantage one way or the other just isn't as significant as it used to be. That being said though, DIY is a good way to spread your costs out over time. I have not built a completely new machine in over 5 years, I just swap in new parts as my needs change or something dies. Once every few years…

We have one that is both a dual-roll tp holder AND a magazine rack. I suppose if we ever did run out of toilet paper, there's always the magazines :)