One, I think I know why my previous posts have “disappeared.” My working theory is that there’s a timeout on the page, and I’m just taking too long to write them.  OK, lesson learned:  write elsewhere, paste here.

Two, to see the Russian embedded in my posts, set your browser’s character encoding to Unicode.  In Firefox, it’s View > Character Encoding > Unicode; for IE, try View > Encoding > More > Unicode.  Of course, you can live without seeing the Russian, but is that really living?