so much Monday email :O this is gonna take me awhile (like a few days) to reply to what i can… so if you didn't get a reply yet don't panic, if you want me to ping you to confirm i received it, send me another email with "ping" in the subject line and i will ping you back ok 
thx for your patience
l8r
Oh, goodness. Look who's been visited by the spammers.
They don't deserve watermelon.
That sucked! Well, Akismet had probs, Barry @ WordPress was nice and let me know what happened:
http://akismet.com/blog/2006/12/dns-outage/