It never rains, does it? The world has to find some way to add that extra little something to any mishap to turn it into a minor disaster.

The machine hosting this site was offline due to lightning-induced damage to precisely one component: the hard drive holding the /var partition. The rest of the machine was completely unaffected, which is at best highly suspicious and at worst a sign that we’re cursed.

My post about backups seems like rather heavy-handed foreshadowing, now.