Ladies and Gentlemen, your humble site administrator interrupts this weblog to notify you all of a few changes around these parts that should help with bandwidth and performance.

First, I have just completed applying security patches to all the plugins we use.

Second, we’ve migrated our RSS feed to use FeedBurner – the old feed will still work, but if you’d be so kind as to use the new feed, I’d be grateful. Find the new feed URL using your browser’s auto-discovery system or by using the Entries RSS link you find at the bottom of every page.

Finally, we’ve migrated the comments system to DISQUS. This should reduce spam, and also make it easier for people to comment, while saving us oodles of bandwidth and making moderation and tracking tremendously easier. It may be a little while before old comments appear – there are a lot of them to convert – so don’t fret.

Hopefully, these changes will be for the better, but they can be backed out if they’re really problematic.

Cheers! We now return you to your irregularly-unscheduled weblog updates.