phew, distaster averted...
in tweaking the site to make it pretty for the judges (hello judges!?) i somehow inadvertently deleted some of my blog template files (don't ask me how - i SWEAR i didn't hit 'delete' at any time).
so some of the comments & archive pages may have been a bit absent for the last 24 hours or so.
i hope it's all fixed now, but please let me know if you see anything amiss!