A sudden thought occurred to me as I was riding the bus to work... "Are blogs the talkback radio of the 00's?"
Whoops...
Here's a hint, it starts with "rm", ends with "*", with a "rf" in between... How could I be so stupid??? Fortunately the important stuff (all?) is in CVS and I think I'll cope without the rest, I guess I'll find out in due course. (Although the nice thing is that my '.' configuration files didn't get blown away which is one less irritation...) I think I'll be looking for an anti-stupidity tool tomorrow.