<tbf> marnanel: you seem to enjoy pain :-)

I have had a quiet weekend in which I only went out of the house once. 5eh and Plexq came over for food. Crocuses are growing in our front garden. I made chilli, and it was not a disaster.
I rashly attempted to upgrade to feisty last night— rashly because feisty isn't due out for weeks. It mostly went well, but then the computer wouldn't boot any more. Instead, it said Kernel panic- not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0). I asked on #ubuntu+1 and they said it was probably an upgrade problem and I should do a fresh reinstall. I wasn't too happy about that, because it would have taken the rest of the night, I already hadn't got any bugs fixed that day, and I didn't have anything to install from. However, Mjg59 was awesome and told me to boot from a CD, chroot to my root partition, and apt-get install linux-generic, which worked. So I have my computer back.
One thing that didn't work was that, because /dev/hda* have apparently been renamed /dev/sda*, my swap partition in /etc/fstab didn't get mounted. I spent a few hours thinking "gosh, I expected feisty to be more memory-hungry, but I can hardly run two applications" before I noticed that I had no swap. So I won't need to rush out and buy more memory just yet. [Update: Mjg59 says that this is because I edited sources.list, and if I used the upgrade tool it would Just Work. So maybe I should do that next time.]
While I'm giving out props, I should mention that I renewed one of our domains this weekend, and tierra.net (aka domaindiscover) are lovely people. The site doesn't get in your way and they have very helpful phone support. (These are the people we use now we're paying in USD; when we were paying in sterling we used Black Cat Networks who are also very helpful people.)
Netvibes is currently impressing me by pushing my information overload limits. Also, I have got around to setting up a facebook profile, so friend me there if you like.
Also, thanks and hugs go to our brave admins who so ably upgraded all the GNOME servers last night.