I was trying to get rid of a stray directory called ~ when I
accidentally zapped my home directory instead. Fortunately, it was
just working through the dotfiles when I noticed.

End result:

– Restored my .emacs and .gnus from the Web. (It pays to publish!)

– Lost my .gnupg keys. Am in process of generating new ones, but old

encrypted data is now gone forever.

– Slowly recovering other dotfiles.