A moment's panic this morning when I sshed into my media box (my old laptop, plugged into stereo and TV) to find that it seemed to be in the middle of deleting all its files and so on and so forth. First hypothesis being that someone had pwned it, I pulled out its network and rebooted, to be met by a not-normal noise from the disk and the "Not a system disk" error from the bios. So, probably hardware. Fortunately there was nothing important on it anyway, but it does mean I am bereft of last.fm until I have time to fiddle with USB key distros or something like that.
Bruising is calming down again - still looking a bit mustard-coloured but not nearly as garish as it was. Pain-free ROM is I think improving (I'm spending a lot of time with hot packs pressed to my neck), but I haven't really been taking notes.
