The other night the commenting system on the site was heavily attacked by an automated spamming system, aiming to spam adverts and links into all the weblog entries. It appears that the load was so heavy that my hosting company then shut down part of the site. At the moment I'm waiting for them to confirm this and put it online again so that I can address the problem and prevent the same thing from happening again in the future. In the meantime, obviously, commenting is down, as well as searching, and I'm unable to blog unless I hack the system like this.