I'm currently mourning the loss of my laptop's hard disk. I don't think there was massive amounts of data on there that I needed, but it's still upsetting. Looks like I'll have to buy a new 2.5" drive. At least it gives me a reason to reinstall Debian.

Update: The bad news is that it is actually a 1.8" drive, which means I need to spend 93GBP including tax and postage for a new drive. Should get it by Friday. The good news is that having left the laptop off during the day, I managed to get the laptop booting and am not rsyncing the data off as fast as I can. Shame about the money, but at least I haven't lost much in the way of data.