According to a press release from SoftBank Mobile, the Japanese service provider has secured an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Japan this year. The deal will ensure the iPhone’s first official access in Japan’s market.

Run Disk First Aid, or the OS X equivalent thereof; it sounds like it might be a corrupted filesystem.

huh. I haven't been syncing my ipod lately, but i did get a spurious disk full note just before mail.app went on to hose all of my prefs, drop some mail and refuse to recognise an mbox or three. rebooting and rebuilding my prefs got it going again, more or less, but i'm planning on scrubbing everything and starting over, in the naive hope that 10.2.3 will be better.