Debbie says:

Have you been missing us? We’ve been missing you.

Since early March, we’ve been fighting what turns out to be this massive hacking scheme, which has apparently compromised thousands or more blogs.

Aside from increasing the amount of spam in the world and making real blogs look like spam blogs (delightfully called “splogs”) to Google, it has also been turning off your chance to comment.

We have excellent people on the job and, now that the extent of the problem is being exposed, many other great minds are working with our support people.

So we’re confident that we’ll be back in more secure fashion soon! Thanks for your patience.

And thanks beyond measure to our fabulous webmaster, Paul, as well as tech-savvy volunteer Whump, without whom we would be completely beyond our abilities.