the last post

For quite some time now I’ve been frustrated by the experience of writing here at the ol’ Homebound Symphony. The problems are three in number. First, my preferred app for blogging, MarsEdit, has always been treated as a suspicious interloper by my hosting service, Reclaim Hosting, and that suspicion has only increased over the years as hosting providers everywhere have been afflicted by more fraudsters (and more kinds of fraudsters). It’s basically the same problem that afflicts banks: there are so many crooks out there that the number of attempted purchases blocked by my bank has increased tenfold over the past few years. But I haven’t changed banks because I have learned from talking with friends that all banks are in this permanent panic mode. You have to price in the blocks, and the time taken to get the blocks lifted, as part of the cost of doing business. And I’m pretty sure that if I changed hosting providers I would find that the new provider is as paranoid (or rationally…