Just a post to make note that I made a sideways change in my comment policy in order to make things easier for everyone.
Before I was moderating all comments in an attempt to kill off blog spam. That worked fine when no one actually read my blog, but it seems that Google has been sending people my way. In an effort to make it easier to leave comments, I removed moderation, but enabled Akismet to curtail spam. Additionally I'm holding comments coming from certain IPs or containing certain keywords in moderation.
Thanks for your patience. If your comment doesn't appear immediately, I will get to it.