As I suspected, the "relocation" of the server on which this blog resides has led to a technical problem: the temporary (I think and hope) loss of a few posts and lots of comments. I'm working on restoring them. Wish me luck, and apologies to everyone whose writing has been deleted -- I hope temporarily.

UPDATE, 2/5/05, 3:21 a.m.: Everything's back, more or less. I've got my fingers crossed that we're done with the transition.