Fixing Punctures / Puncture Repair / Exploding Tubes

My personal gripe is not with the solvent glue but the riddiculous over-sized patches that come in kits, or even the small patches on a strip they sell at my LBS. I eventually found some really small, really reliable round patches at Mike Dyason, 100 patches for about £3.00
Take a standard patch and cut into halves/quarters. I do it all the time and they hold up fine.