A huge thank-you to the hundreds of readers who have already contributed to our first-ever fundraiser. Your donations have enabled us to begin implementing the first project on our agenda, setting up a system to allow reader comments on articles and blogs. Our target date for completion of all software engineering is May 15th, two weeks after our fundraising began. The comments submitted by readers will be monitored before appearing. We do not want to publish libelous, obscene, or distasteful comments. But, all points of view will be welcome, and we hope that vigorous and intelligent debate will become a feature of our comments sections.There will, however, be a time lag between submission and posting, and we trust this will not be too bothersome. I am in the process of writing thank-you notes to all who have donated. I apologize for the delay. Troubleshooting technical problems that arose, along with the press of keeping the site going prevented me from responding as promptly as...(Read Full Post)