Admin Note: Commenting is off

Haloscan, the service which processes Kn@ppster's comments, appears to have been down for a day or so now, at least from my end of the Internet connection. Because the integration of their script into the blog was slowing down its load time in a big way, I've removed the script loader, which means that comments are "off" at the moment. Sorry for the interruption, and I'll have them back on ASAP.