Curse the lightning

Talk about bad luck: A couple weeks ago the backup server for this site was taken out by a lightning storm, and then last week a second lightning took out the facility holding the main server. So the site has been down for the past few days and the most recent backup we’ve been able to recover is from November. Fortunately I have copies of the lost comments and posts, but I’ll have to manually republish them, which will be time-consuming and result in duplicate posts showing up in your RSS readers. Apologies for the inconvenience.