no mention of the little HP microservers??

about £100 with cashback (no drives).

Four hotswap drive bays and a bay for an optical drive.

Am going to set mine up with Ubuntu server and use Grive to back up to google

I’m interested in these, how loud are they? The synology is almost completely silent. Actually I see you can put a wireless card in them, mmmmm :rubs chin:

1/ Storage – Have a Synology 212J – been faultless for 2 years new models may have USB 3 – they’ve taken the Apple route, good products but small upgrades across the range make for large price differences

2/ Backup – Portable HD of choice to backup the NAS

Gonna cost upwards of £400

Falafel

and basically anything chicpeasy

Thudbuster

If you can’t get a Nexus 5 I’d opt for the Sony Z1 unless you want a (lovely) massive-ish screen in which case I’d go for a Note 3

Shepherds Zesty Goat Worrier

New pic is even nicerer – steel or aluminium?

apart from the dodgy immobiliser

Had this in a Ford Focus – no one could ever solve it – supermarket carparks were a speciality – the fourth time we came home on the back of a car recovery truck I got a French car-gulp.

France is full of french cars – source: drove to Italy through France last year.

I’ve got a Scenic Mk 3 on a 59 plate, bought two years ago no problems with it so far (fingers crossed) – hang on that’s a lie Daughter No1 busted a piece of the door/window trim off.

Oh and just after we bought it (while camping) I was fiddling with some bits and bobs, then a couple of days later we were driving home in a storm (ah UK camping) put the lights on and the TFT screen went black – “effing French cars, knew we shouldn’t have got one, shoddy electrics effing French cars”, turned out I one of the things I fiddled with was the dimmer for the TFT – d’oh!

Interesting, pretty much decided Swift was going to be my next bike but maybe it’ll be the Rooster. Do I need 29+? do I want 29+? Hmmm

BOOM

Used to do Read It Swap It but the Post Office charges have killed it for me, now just take it to charity shop

At least let us shoot the surveyors who signed off on the purchases.

Or the councillors who approved it as part of the local development plan….

Or the financiers who funded and ensured the profitability of such development

And any pensioners who received pensions based on the profitability of these developments to their pension funds.

Something like this

Prius

Hateful cars, my old dear has had two 120d’s (hatchback), uncomfortable, terrible sports suspension, awful visibility, the interior is beyond bland, grey/black, feldgrau dour. Rear legroom is laughable and boot is tiny.

On the upside it’s well built and is pretty good to drive – except if it’s snowing in which case I recommend at least all weather tyres.

Personally not, but there does seem a bit of a buzz in that London that hasn’t been around for a few years, subjective I know.