his site, but the spam is getting excessive again.  (I suspect the upgrade to MT 3.15 did something unfortunate to my MTBlacklist installation which I currently lack time to fix.)  At any rate, I'm moderating unregistered comments until further notice.  Friendly anons*, and others who object to TypePad registration, are still welcome to post comments; it just may take as much as a day for them to appear on the public site.  </p>

<p>Meanwhile, I'm out of town <i>again</i>, although fortunately this time I'm