I haven't heard from you M Currie, in a long time! Thanks for helping out with the comment on the blog glitch!

Here's what M Currie said in the comments:

I suspect this is related to the glitch, but when I open the program normally, with Javascript enabled, none of the highlighted areas work (i.e. links don't link, no little hand appears, etc.) and the right panel is blank. 

If I turn off Javascript, the hand appears and links work, but then, of course, I can't post, because posting requires Javascript enabled. If then I turn Javascript back on, it will then return to normal, and I can post, and the right panel information appears again.

I haven't played with this extensively, so exactly what's going on and how remains uncertain, but it's pretty clearly something with the way Javascript is loading.

For info, I'm using Firefox, and have the add-on that allows quick toggling of Javascript.

I note when returning from the Hurst page here to the main section, although the links continued to work, and I didn't have to do any tricks to post another comment, the right panel was blank.