I am still here, waiting. In the meantime I have been remarkably productive on the blog maintenance front. I have upgraded my blog software and made a bunch of changes in a effort to further limit the time I spend combatting spam. As well as continuing to run Akismet I have (I think) completely disabled trackbacks on all posts and made it so that comments on old posts will close automatically after 30 days. If you notice anything odd happening as a result of this twiddling, do let me know.