I wasn't going to blog tonight. My iBook is a little under the weather. It's a hardware thing. The hard disk is currently doing an impression of those Government Information films of the 1970's*, with Jimmy Savile.

This sort of thing often signifies that the hard disk is about to die. But this time, I'm ready!

I've backed up all my data from it, onto my desktop Mac, and am currently Norton Disk Doctoring it, to see if it's salvageable. If it's not, I do have AppleCare, so any repairs are covered, and couriered back and forth from my house.

*I'm talking about the ones, encouraging people to use their seatbelts in cars. You'll have to page down on the link to find reference to the Jimmy Savile stuff. The catchphrase was, "Clunk-click, every trip", and that, frankly, is what my hard disk is doing. It sounds like there's a marble loose in the casing!