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I have reenabled comments, and more importantly I seem to have recovered everything that was lost. It was actually a pretty simple matter of just having the database check and repair itself; thanks to Barrett at TMC for showing me the way. I'll probably make a couple of minor changes to the templates again soon (I'd very much like comments to appear inline after the posts on the individual entry pages), but otherwise I think everything is stable now (knock on wood).

Oh, I have made one other change: you'll now have to leave your email address (or some email address anyway) if you want to leave a comment here.