Well, I’ve upgraded to the latest WordPress, cleaned up some spam and gave the database a once-over. Hopefully the annoying spam comments are gone for everybody.
Looks like everything made it through the upgrade okay, but if you see something amiss (in particular with how comments are processed) please let me know. Sorry about the disruption, and thanks to everyone who called the problem to my attention. Since I don’t check my blog with an RSS reader I probably would never have seen those hidden links…
Woo! and the problem I complained about months ago is gone – there’s no longer weird extra characters at the start of the RSS feed confusing my reader into never showing any posts.