I have absolutely no idea. Yes, I'm aware of the damaged cable off the French coast - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34204.html, which explains some of the problems I've been having recently, but not all of 'em.

Still don't really know what's going on, but the web-server seems to be working now. Some time last night, I noticed that the web-server wasn't responding. A bit of digging around and it transpires that it was responding, but there was a problem with the bit in the script where the Unix function 'cal' is executed. For some reason unknown to myself, cal has just gone from that machine. Weird, eh? I only worked this out tonight. I've since re-installed 'cal' and changed the script as it also seemed to have a permission problem piping the output of cal to a temporary file. I've since changed the script to use backticks, storing the output in a variable. But what happened? Admittedly, I did turn the power on and off a few times to that machine, in an attempt to get it re-booted, and maybe it was then that the hard-drive got slightly corrupted . . . I guess. I don't know. Anyway, I got a puncture to fix . . . and loads of stuff. What?! And now I can't even save my web-log . . . eh?! Grrrrrr . . . permissions.