So, as some of you may have noticed, my machine occasionally decides to die… I’m not too sure why, however it has these symptoms:

I’m using this as an excuse to buy a new drive (even though fsck says the partition is fine, and SMART reports no problems with the disk). Frankly, I’ve been wanting to buy a new drive and even if it isn’t the problem, I come out of it with 160 gigs more than I have now.

When it arrives, I’ll be taking the machine down to transition between hard drives (it should hopefully be a relatively painless process, but you never know. In any event, I’ll throw a post up the night before I do it, in case anyone has a dire need to visit some portion of my site.