I've brought the columns and miniblog over onto the TheirSay inline comment system, which I think readers will agree is easier to use than Blogger's built-in commenting. Unfortunately, that means the counter for each post has been reset to zero -- but previous comments are all still there. In other commenting news, the Recent Comments list at right has been upgraded: click on the link and it takes you to the originating post, rather than to that pop-up thingy. That brought its own transitional glitch: in the course of restarting the database, existing comments were all reset to the same timestamp (12:05 pm yesterday). It doesn't seem to have affected the order in which they appear, thank goodness, so the discussions still follow logically. That is, so far as they ever follow logically.