In hopes of improving the site’s woeful performance, I’ve made a few changes, including upgrading to WordPress 2.3. I also changed back to the red theme I had a while back. Most significantly, I’ve removed login requirements. I’m hoping that I’ve been inaccessible to spammers long enough to have reduced the flow to a level Akismet can handle. Please advise if problems with loading the page are better, worse or (most likely, I guess) unchanged.
Update 2/10/07 9pm After some ups and downs it looks as if things are working better. Please comment and advise either way
John Quiggin 
It seems better now. Earlier if I moved to another site (with Safari), I could not come back to this site without closing the laptop and starting again, but now I am able to come back without any problem.
It is working fine for me now – well done.
Its very quick now – well done
Just testing
I have been clicking on links in this site like crazy for a few minutes and haven’t been to get the “white screen of death” yet. I’ll let you know if I do get it.
All working fine.
Seems to load a lot faster.
For some reason, changing the “Text size” under Internet Explorer’s “View” menu has no effect on this site. It comes through to my screen in about 9 point and is thus quite hard to read.
working well now.