Comments temporarily suspended

Comments to this blog are being spammed and so we've just turned them off until we can figure out how to stop the spammers.

Christine

UPDATE (JimK) This afternoon we were hit with a couple hundred spam comments within a few minutes, so we shut off the comments. I am going to implement a word verification method; you will be shown some letters in strange writing, and will be asked to type that into a box in order to verify that you are a human being. Unfortunately, right now the Blogger service is not publishing correctly (we've had problems on and off all week with it), so I can't get that to work.

If we get spammed again, we'll have to turn the comments off. In the meantime, have at it, kids.

JimK