Okay... perhaps I'm wrong about this whole pariah thing. According to Haloscan: "[They] have found that the cause of the recent problems with the service were caused by a hardware failure in the database server. [They] are working to replace that server completely but in the meantime [they] have a backup loaded. No comments have been lost but [they] have temporarily disabled the posting of comments to the server until [they] have the database server replaced. Everything should be resolved and running by Tuesday at the latest." and this morning, Couture tried to post a comment and it wouldn't accept... or so he told me... ... as I'm not sure how long Haloscan has been broken, I can only assume that people are trying to comment, but they just can't. and I suppose, since only 6 days ago my counter was the Mark of the Beast, and now it's at 820... well I haven't logged into my own site from 154 different computers... so people are coming. Yeah, most likely I'm wrong. That's generally the case.