You know what's great about getting a new blog template every other month?
You know where to check for things that are going awry. I know of two formatting issues: bullet points aren't rendering right (hence the use of dopey asterisks in the last two posts) and something bad has gone on with the monthly archives. Our web jockeys have been alerted and are working on the problem.
Update:Archives problem fixed.
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