Blog's talkback area is now being subsidized by Haloscan instead of Backblog.

The good news is that Haloscan allows readers to post more than five comments.

The bad news is that a week's worth of comments had to be sacrificed in the process.

Let us now have a moment of silence for all those lost words. They fought bravely and they died bravely. Their noble sacrifice is our gain.

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Now, the taps. Doo-da-doo. Doo-da-dooo. Doo-da-doo-doo-da-doo. Doo-da-doo-doo-da-doo. Doo-da-doo.