ObPolitical post

It occurs to me that the UKIP may be the best thing to have happened to British politics in a long time. With luck they'll split the euroskeptic Tory vote enough to ensure some decent LibDem gains this election.

I'm not going to exhort people to vote today. Apathy is its own reward.

And while I'm on the subject

Political polls during the election have indicated that the split in the vote is something like as follows. Labour: 40%, Conservatives: 25%, Liberals: 20%, Others 15%. Now as far as I can see that means that the Tories have about as much support in this country as the Liberals. Yet in all the election coverage I've seen, the Lib Dems are treated as "also-rans". The perception of the Lib Dems as a minority party is an illusory one, created by our rather bizarre electoral system by sustained in a large part by the media. Unfortunately this perception loses them votes from people who think there's "no point in voting for a party that won't win".

Geekery

What are the current recommended mail order outfits for buying computer tech as cheap as possible without infinite hassle if one of the parts should prove faulty?