Scorched earth
A quick note of apology: while deleting a large chunk of comment spam (several hundred) yesterday, I unintentionally deleted a handful of legitimate comments posted recently here and at Michele's blog. In my zeal to destroy the offending spam comments, I got a bit careless.
So if you've noticed that a comment of yours has disappeared, and are perhaps wondering if I deleted it because I hate you, rest assured: such is not the case. My apologies, and I'll be more careful in the future.