It appears I just can't help myself ...

I've done it again.

I've now completely crashed my old comments system completely by republishing my archives. The new comments system has effectively over-written the old one, and there's no way I can pluck the old comments back out of the ether without paying their site-host for the privilege.

But my archive sidebar was stuffing up and it was the only way to fix it. Damn, all those undergraduate comments about sodomy lost forever ...

Farewell, first four months of comments - including the marathon comments on sodomy and modes of anti-war protest. You will be missed.

Still, victory is sweet for those who continued to put entries in the less vulnerable guestbook.