Just in case somebody was wondering why this blog was down over the weekend:
I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my server from Debian etch to Debian lenny. And while doing that ran into Bug #541371.
Otherwise the upgrade was pretty painless. But as timid (some might say sane) as I am, I disabled xen before the upgrade. Getting that up and running with a new kernel will be the next step. This is especially tricky as I do not have a remote console, just the Hetzner rescue system.
Oh, and as I’m no longer running a pre-historic wordpress, this blog might get a new design sooner than later.