Regarding the latter, I observed a curious phenomenon in this holiday period, that apparently some readers are "catching up" and commenting on old posts. I just wanted to let you know that in that case your comment will not immediately appear. As many comments on older threads are spam, Blogger is set up so that I get to moderate these comments automatically before they are published. That can take a day or two. But don't worry, your comment didn't get lost or deleted, it is just delayed.

In a similar vein, I would like to apologize also to all readers whose comments ever got caught in the spam filter. False positives happen. Again, nothing gets lost, I can identify the comment as not being spam and then it gets published, just with some delay.