Pardon the mess...

Comments are just getting under my skin. Nobody can seem to get past the verification whether I use text images, math problems, or whatever. But if I shut them off I get slammed with bot-spam. So I'm trying to switch over to an external commenting system and it is not as intuitive as I'd hoped. No worries, I will fix it today - anything to keep the dissertation away - but there may be a bit of a mess in the meantime.

UPDATE: What a mess!  I can't figure it out so I am going to disable the new comment system for now until Haloscan can get their forum repaired.  Hopefully this will all be fixed soon.