This is just to let our readers know that we had a little mishap last week with regards to guest comments. It seems that someone (okay… it was me, of course) accidentally turned on the “moderate comments” feature while attempting to do something else. This made it impossible for visitors to post comments to any of the threads. You’d think we would have noticed this before yesterday, (and I did muse a couple of times over the last week, “Hmmm, wonder why we aren’t getting much blog discussion. Maybe everyone’s doing their Christmas shopping?”) but it’s finals week here at Cornell and things have been a bit hectic. And everyone is doing their Christmas shopping.

The problem is fixed now, and as I’m the only person here foolish enough to make this mistake even once, I think it’s a good bet it will never happen again. But we profusely apologize to any and all readers whose comments never saw the light of day! You’d think we would have gotten them somehow, wouldn’t you? But we’ve never tried to moderate our comments before, and we can’t figure out now where they all went. Anyway, I’m very, very sorry, because there’s nothing I hate more than typing out a comment and having it get lost somehow. If this happened to you, at least you should know that nobody was deliberately censoring you! If there’s anything you really wanted to say on any of the existing threads, it will work now, but we (or I, at least) will also try to stir things back to life with some fresh posts over the next few days.