USB Madness

It occurred to me last night, as I hooked up some new gadgets to my computer, that I have… an obnoxious amount of USB peripherals.

• Keyboard
• Regular mouse
• Trackball mouse
• Printer
• iPod
• Memory Card reader
• IR receiver for the Windows Media Center remote control
• External hard drive
• Bluetooth adapter
• USB headphone/headset
• Gamepad

This was brought to mind when I had to hook up a powered USB hub last night, because I ran out of USB ports on my computer (and my computer has 8 USB ports of its own!).

Is it… bad that I have so much crap attached to my computer? Or is it normal these days to have dozens of USB peripherals?