We now return to our regularly scheduled programming

The past couple of weeks have been insanely busy at work and now that things are settling down, I am taking stock of what has been going on in my absence. Upon my return here, the first thing I noticed is that the comment spammers have been hard at work and there were several hundred spam comments awaiting moderation. Happily none of them actually made it onto the site (take THAT you evil scum-sucking spammers), but sadly, in a bout of batch deleting I also deleted a few vaild comments. My apologies to the authors. I don’t have very many comments on my site, so I was sad to have lost them

The other thing that came to light as I resumed my daily routines, is that something is seriously wrong with my iPod. It still plays and still charges, but it is not recognized by my Mac. It doesn’t mount on the desktop, it doesn’t show up in iTunes, and it doesn’t show up in Disk Utility. In spite of following all the different suggestions I found scattered around the web (because it seems I am not alone in this problem), it still stubbornly refuses to mount. I am not quite sure what to try next and since it is out of warranty, my options are fairly limited. Any suggestions are welcome.

Other events of note, The System of the World, the Dark Tower VII and the Stars Wars Trilogy on DVD were released, Kottke and others have put together a handy-dandy Voters Information Guide for the upcoming U.S. elections, a new beta of Sype for the Mac was released, and most importantly, John Joseph Spelker came into the world.