Little white pills? What’re they? And who threw all those bottles under the stairs?

Je regrette rien… But I wish we hadn’t been down so long, because it seems that in our absence, the Republicans have regrouped themselves and become even more shameless. (I listened to the Hayden hearings, but yelling and throwing things and pounding my fists on the table aren’t conducive to working on the site, so I had to give that up.)

We outgrew our old ISP, and so we had to move. As long as we had the patient open, we did as much surgery as possible, which included upgrading to Drupal 4.7 (which is why it is now possible to hear MJS read the Times, for example). Security, features, the hip factor of podcasting… All the usual reasons.

There are also a lot of nice new little fit-and-finish features—assuming you have JavaScript—like the dragger bar at the bottom of comment boxes. Now you can drag to make the box bigger, instead of scrolling.

But now the patient is closed. We hope.

PLEASE report any issues or concerns either by using the Contact form at top right, or by emailing me directly at lambert_strether1 AT yahoo DOT com.

Thanks again for your patience, and we’re very glad to be back online.

UPDATE ON COMMENTS
One of the issues we were having was a LOT of spam, because we had open comments. Even though our filters caught 99.9% of it, still every comment was a hit on the server and the load added up. So now, you must register/log in to comment. Think of it as a matter of informational hygiene.

And please, if you aren’t logged in, don’t submit the comment twice. All that means is that there’s an extra in the approval queue we then have to delete.

UPDATE ON IE
For the IE users who experienced problems before—Are you experiencing them now? (And if you are, why not just upgrade to FireFox… Unless you’re at work, of course…)