A couple of minor changes here....

Unfortunately, my blog has been hit with 'comment spam' recently - things that look like comments but are actually unwanted advertising for someone else's get-rich-quick or rip-you-off schemes.

I've cleaned out the non-comments and changed a setting; comments can still be entered, but there is an additional verification step before they will be accepted. It's a bit of a nuisance, but the cretins that prey on others leave me no particular choice.

If you come across any comments in any blog that include highlighted links, please do not click on the links unless you know exactly who put them there (and even then I would avoid clicking on them). They are not much different than those strange e-mails with links that pretend to go to banking sites, etc. - all they will do is cause you problems.

More later - our Japanese administrator is due here for a visit in two weeks.