If you check this site with regularity (and we know of only a handful who might), you've noticed that the last two months, it has shut down mid-month due to too much web-traffic.

This is not because we're suddenly vastly more popular than we were.

It's because we're now on some spam-bot's list of places to post comments loaded with links to various crap sites.

And those links generate a ton of traffic, getting search engines to follow the links in an attempt to make those sites more popular as search results on those engines (or something like that as I understand this particular seemingly pointless irritant). That ups our web traffic and winds up shutting down our site.

So, as a result, we've now made it impossible to post here anonymously. You'll need to log on, using blogger or using OpenID (someone who understands OpenID better than I do, please help explain) before you can post.

Christina and I apologize for the inconvenience. If someone knows of a better way to fix this problem, we're all ears.

And hopefully, by the time we make it so this site can stay up all month, we'll be able to post about the stuff going on in our career. We're hoping to have big news soon, but until it's official, we ain't talking. The fear of the jinx is a powerful phobia in our home.