My beautiful powerbook computer appears to have died in its sleep. All emails should be addressed to the temporary email address of martinecotton@gmail.com until the problem is fixed. Any mail going to any of the frangipani extensions won't be seen or replied to until the tech's can work out what's wrong. Damn pain in the arse.

UPDATE: Apparantly the powerbook needs a new CPU. I did do a full data back up last weekend with Carbon Copy Clone, thanks to a spooky premonition that panicked me into serious backup mode. (Not that the computer was playing up at all, it just died in it's sleep and wouldn't wake up) The tech guy said they couldn't guarantee data recovery of the most recent items (including 150 photos of me and 6 others out and about for a spectacular Kabuki performance at the Japan National Theatre in kimono's and also a bunch of work related emails.) but that they would try. Luckily, the powerbook is protected by a 3 year warrantee so it won't cost me a cent. Getting them to fix the excessive heating and loud fan problems too, so the computer that comes back to me will be a better one. Now I just have to sit back and be patient. It's probably going to take a week in the shop. Must confess, I'm at quite a loss without it. Gonna get some books read at last, I think. It's all good.