If you’ve tried to visit this blog in the past weeks, you’ve either found it unreachable or without new content. An explanation is in order.

The Vox Blog was infected with a vicious automated virus/worm that perplexed even my loyal and diligent technical wizard. H1N1 notwithstanding, this was a tough one to get past. The virus kept taking down the site. Currently, you’ll see past blog postings but no comments, and no accurate dating for the postings. We’re working on it.

It’s maddening that I’ve been a victim of a faceless vandalism, and now an expensive remedy. There are probably numerous lessons about the nature of our digitally connected world, and I’ve not begun to sort all of them.

However, it seems even more important to not back away from the opportunity to speak and write and engage ideas. So I won’t.