Bags: I love bags. I also love boxes, but that is another story. I guess I am always on the look out for the perfect bag; one that can carry as much or as little as you want, has enough pockets for your geek needs and looks great.

The perfect bag should also not look like a computer bag, but be sufficiently well padded to protect your shiny G4 powerbook (or Intel whatsit sometime next year!!). Bonus points are awarded for an easily accessible mobile phone pocket, iPod holder and somewhere to keep your nootbook (of the paper variety). It should also be indestructible (anything that I own needs that quality!!)

My current bag is a Kipling Hacker bag that I have had for some 5 or 6 years and is still going strong. My only criticism is that although it is light, hard-wearing (solid metal fixings help enormously) and protects my laptop pretty well, it does fall down on the lots of pockets front. This is definitely a small gripe that does nothing to diminish it‘s usefulness especially in the face of it’s long standing service. It also has something else going for it … I bought it in a half price sale - a bargain at £50 or so.

So where from here? I'm well impressed with Kipling, so here are my top picks from them last time I looked at their site (As a total aside, I found the site a pain to use - too flashy and over-designed).

All very different, but all have merits!