Bloody computers.

I spent most of Tuesday driving home. Checked my email before I left; there seemed to be a network issue with my server, but I didn't bother checking until the evening, when I got home.

Bad mistake.

The box this blog runs on threw a kernel panic some time late on Monday night/early on Tuesday, and panicked repeatedly on reboot. Diagnostics demonstrated that (a) the RAID array was hosed, and (b) the machine's memory had gone bad ... right as it was handling probably 30-50,000 emails and...