Communication/Correspondence/Contact

If you've been paying attention here, you've probably picked up on the sense that I am trying to de-Google myself; trying to opt out of the NSA surveillance system to whatever extent I can achieve.

Yes, this blog uses a Google-owned platform (Blogger) and a Google-owned hosting system (blogspot.com). It's the best that I can do at the moment. I could switch to Wordpress.com, but that's really no more secure. There are almost no free options for hosting this kind of blog, and I am not able -- yet, at least -- to afford private hosting in a more privacy-friendly country (e.g., Iceland?). So the plug on this particular blog may be one of the last that I pull. Until then, I still want to start doing all I can to make it not so easy to be included in the NSA dragnet.

Email.
I have withdrawn from my the Gmail account for "sebaygo1" to the extent that the main reason I still check it periodically is to see if I have received a donation at the PayPal account that is associated with that email address. And since that happens so seldom now, I may well close that PayPal account and open another, or at least open another one. Currently there are two email accounts that I use.