Last night, the gale-force winds managed to give me a nice little power-outage. Initially, all seemed well, until later in the evening visar (and thus my Internet connection) died. A post-mortem this morning revealed a dead power-supply as the culprit, and given that it was the one thing not on a surge protector... This afternoon I popped into PC World to pick up a new case and another surge protector - the chances of finding a spare PSU that would go into visar's dinky case being about nil. Naturally, the only cases they had were great big hulking things, but at least I managed to get a cheap one. Plan A involved fitting out the new case with components from visar's previous incarnation, but that was doomed to eventual failure by a now-dead USB controller. Eventually I ended up fitting the mini ITX board from the dinky case into the new monster case and I had something that worked, in a Frankenstein's monster kind of way.
All that really got in the way of me getting anything much else done (other than shopping trips), so my evil plans to take over
the_restricted appear to have been thwarted yet again. Wah. 