Last Update: A freestanding corkboard, from a broken LCD screen (near the bottom, under The Reverse) and a PC case made from stained glass, near the top.

CaseMods?

You can build a computer from parts, if you like. It's not as difficult as you might imagine, but enough work to stop most people wanting to have a go. You buy the bits needed, and buy a case to put them in. Plug all the bits together, do up a few screws, and you should be good to go.

Some people aren't satisfied with this, though, and want a computer that looks a bit more special than that.

It's called casemodding - case modifications - though in most of the best ones, the case is built from scratch. Check through some of the links below to get some idea of how amazing these things can end up looking - there's some incredible craftsmanship gone into them...

Adam is not going to be totally out-done in the geek stakes by Gina - he's posted on Lifehacker How to set up a home personal Subversion server.

Subversion is something I've never used - it lets you set up a folder of files, and it will keep track of all changes to them. You need to keep updating your folder with the copy on the server, and you have to use special commands to move or delete stuff, which I thought was probably a bit limiting for what you get out of it. If you really want to keep every version of all of your files, or just some of them, it's a good option, though. I just didn't stand to gain much from it anyway. Apart from the sheer geeky joy of running Subversion ;)

A nice trick from Lifehacker - Clean your Keyboard with a Post-it Note (well, they say laptop, but it's mainly about the keyboard. Works especially well on a laptop keyboard, because the gaps are small and narrow.)

I've just given it a go, and it works fairly well. The sticky soon gets gummed up, but that probably just means that poor Moog is very dirty.

It's black, so it's Gaffer Tape, not Duct Tape. But don't worry - Gaffer tape is better. This looks pretty good, actually. I can feel an article creeping along about bags and such, for the craft section.

No idea if it's available outside the UK, and even here, it's an exclusive to Woolworths stores, but it's an interesting idea. If it goes well, I'd imagine others will soon follow. Looks like the laptop lid has a removable panel, which you can replace, like the old Nokia 'Express-on' covers. You can choose replacements from their web site, but the clever part is that you can also design your own, uploading your own picture to make a cover from.