Slammed

The site has been slammed for a few days now with a heavy enough load trying to access the comments and trackback components to bring down the entire shared server.  As a result I’ve taken some countermeasures to try to stop the deluge until more permanent solutions can be found.  For the time being, comments and trackbacks have been disabled.  Hopefully this will help alleviate enough of the burden on the server that I can keep the site up enough to post.