Sound of silence

My apologies to anyone who's had trouble with this site the past few days. This includes me.

Our online guys updated the blog software on Friday with the result that all of our blogs were knocked offline. My understanding is that spammers inundated the blogs with trash and the server crashed. A way to block the spammers was found that involved blocking anyone from Europe from reading our blogs. I'd say who needs 'em except two former Bulletin colleagues, and current friends, are in Europe for a spell.

My blog was operating again by late Friday but as of Sunday night it's still impossible for anyone to leave comments. I think that feature was temporarily disabled.

In any event, I was going to blog about a trip I took to L.A. on Saturday but instead I'm going to lie low until the blog issues are resolved. No point in posting if nobody can comment.