been having some weirdness with the comments. many times they don't replicate down to local. and because of that, when the ddn server went down a few months back, i lost a bunch of them. i never figured out why. it's real odd. and now lately it seems like sometimes there is more than one comment stream. a few comments entered against a recent post ended up in their own little thread. i haven't figured out why yet. the trouble is, when i get home the last thing i want to do is monkey around with the blog. but i'm going to have to roll up my sleeves and tackle it soon.

all that to say, if you post a comment and it gets lost, you are in good company. i think i'm going to do a complete refresh of the entire database here pretty soon, possibly with a blog of my own design. not at all sure about that yet. we'll see. at the very least i need to at least move up to the latest ibm sanctioned version. i'm still running an old version of steve's pre-ibm software.