Who is ‘General Failure’ and why is he reading my hard disk?

The old joke is rather less funny this evening, since my hard drive is currently doing a passable impression of a washing machine full of rusty nails. I’m only able to post this entry because of the godsend that is Knoppix.

I fly to Thailand on Saturday, and I doubt I’ll be buying a new hard drive before then. So apologies in advance for what I guess will be a severe lack of entries this week…