OK. I learned my lesson with Movable Type. When I originally set-up the MT version of the blog I created it as a file using Berkeley DB. This file got corrupted for some reason a little after the last post on December 9th. The result was that I had to rebuild all the entries after reinstalling the application with a mysql database. That, and the constant needs of my little girl, explain the delays on updating the blog. But now it resides in a nice and stable mysql database which is hopefully less prone to problems and it runs on the latest version of MT which hopefully is better able to resist trackback spam.