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I just checked my stats plugin. The numbers were higher than I had expected.

To all of you who did not abandon me when this blog was having its difficulties earlier this year, I proffer my deepest gratitude. To anyone new, welcome.

I am planning to move to https when I get a round tuit, mostly because I’m tired of Firefox’s nagging.

I don’t consider that move urgent, as I do not have any confidential user information here and I don’t transact business.

This sort of baffles my hosting provider, which from time to time, not too frequently, calls me with offers of assistance “to grow my business” and which seems taken aback when I explain that this is a hobby, or, perhaps more accurately, an avocation. I point out to the callers that I could have much more expensive hobbies, but this is one that enables me to keep learning stuff.

Learning stuff gives meaning to life.

I’ve been dragging my feet on the https because it makes my brain hurt, but one day I shall open my mailbox and find a round tuit. When I do, I’ll give you all plenty of notice.

Thanks for visiting.

Afterthought:

If you wonder why I stay with my hosting provider, which is not the cheapest, I have two words: Tech Support.

Its support staff knows what it is doing and they do it well.

I used to wear a headset. I know whereof I speak.

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This website does not track you.

It contains no private information. It does not drop persistent cookies, does not collect data other than incoming ip addresses and page views (the internet is a public place), and certainly does not collect and sell your information to others.

Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.

I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.

Finally, this is website is a hobby. It's a hobby in which I am deeply invested, about which I care deeply, and which has enabled me to learn a lot about computers and computing, but it is still ultimately an avocation, not a vocation; it is certainly not a money-making enterprise (unless you click the "Donate" button--go ahead, you can be the first!).

I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.