I had something different to post this morning, but I think I'll wait until I'm feeling less depressed.
My father called the computer place, and they got the computer, and here's a list of what got fried: PSU, motherboard, videocard, hard disk. Must have been a power surge or something like that, of course. Goddamned electrical company and their newfangled "digital" electricity meters, ever since they've been installed it's been powercut, power surge, power cut, power surge, and on and on...
Sigh. So. I have recovered my Trillian contact list from my old computer with a filerecover proggie. Everything else is still lost.
But.
For the broken parts to be replaced, since the computer was still under warranty, they have to be sent back to the manufacturer. Of course, if they do that with the HD, I lose any hope of recovering the data on it. Apparently it's just one part of the HD that got fried - the little engine thingy that makes the HD go whirr (bear with me, I can't be bothered going for the dictionary). So the data on the HD could still be recoverable... so dad is buying a new HD rather than getting the one under warranty, and he's asked the techs at the computer store to see if they can replace the thingy or find some other way to recover the data off the HD. If they can't manage, he's asked that they send the b0rked HD back with the fixed computer, so he can get it to a data recovery company or somesuch. So maybe not all is lost.
In other news, I've been trying out Opera7 decently now that it's out of beta and actually released. It's great, pity that blogger is entirely b0rked in it... eh. Maybe it'll be an incentive to switch to Greymatter, or Moveable Type, or whatever.