So, the 'little' downtime has been most of a week, which kind of serves me right for buggering around with my server so much when I had other things to do.
I'm now running Ubuntu 6.06, having abandoned my attempts to get Edgy (6.10) installed. (Thanks to Patrick from Bytemark for putting up with my emails.)
In other news, Clare ran the Reading Half Marathon at the weekend, in under 2:15! I hot-footed it from Reading to Cambridge to attend SPA 2007, which was an extremely rewarding experience. Now I'm home, tired, and looking forward to sleeping in a bed that's actually long enough for me...