I’m not dead, just been very busy. I returned to Dublin at the end of April, then had to find a place to live (got a nice one bedroom close to the city center/Temple Bar). I went to France (and Switzerland and Italy) last weekend to visit two friends of mine that are studying in Annecy. I got a Flickr account and uploaded some photos. The comment spam situation is the same — they don’t show up in the blog, but they spam my inbox with “please moderate” reminders (I just had to delete 250 of them!).