Since early 1/18/2008, this blog has been receiving distributed denial of service attacks aimed at the receiving e-mail system. To thwart the desired impact of that style of attack (someone hopes to crash the blog’s server) no messages sent via this blog’s contact page have been received, since early 1/18/2008. The contact page now works properly again. If you’ve been trying to reach me using this blog’s contact e-mail address, which a VERY limited number of you reading this know about, do not use that e-mail account. Use the contact form. Mail sent to that e-mail account will not be received. Messages sent to me via the contact form should reach me with no problem now.