Auf wiedersehen

Tomorrow, I get to spend a very long day traveling to the Lindau Meetings, which will be great fun, and you can expect some science blogging from that event (Bora will also be attending, so Scienceblogs has you covered).

However, I am seeing some troublesome stirrings here. A certain demented ex-commenter is morphing to avoid his banning, we've just had a flood of weird spam (a dental office using spam tools? Tsk, tsk), and I just know my ability to police the site is going to be hampered by meetings…or good Bavarian beer. So just be warned: I may have to turn user registration on again. I know you hate that, but I also hate accumulated spam.

I'll think about it overnight, but I may have to put the handcuffs and ball gag on you guys tomorrow. For a while.

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