A couple things:

• Both the forum and my blog comments are free services that live on other people's servers and are maintained by anonymous, smarty-pants techie people. When one or both of them goes down (as both have been doing quite a lot lately), I can't do a bleeding thing about it besides wait for them to come back up again. And swear a lot. Not that that helps, but it makes me feel better. Anyway, don't panic when these features aren't working, it doesn't mean that I've discontinued them or that there is anything wrong with me or my site. Rest assured that if I ever decide to discontinue the forums I'll make announcements to that effect all over the place.
  
  
• I haven't updated because I'm busy, dammit! Seriously. I've taken on several scenes from DL 3.8 that nobody else wanted, so I'm scrambling to get those done, and I have a research paper due on Halloween. And it's high time that I got started on my end-of-term projects. Plus I need to get busy promoting the band's show this Friday and getting CDs ready to sell. Like I said, I'm busy. And a little overwhelmed. So I probably won't be updating as frequently or have as big a presence on the forums for the next few weeks. But I'll be checking in when I can. This, by the by, is the same reason I haven't written you back yet. Whoever you may be.