See, now, I believe our blog *should* suffer along with our users. As for the rest of those out-of-town-based interlopers ...

"Out-of-town-based interlopers"? You seem to miss the fact that web hosting services can exist anywhere and be accessed from anywhere. In fact, you'll find that most website-hosting servers don't exist in the same location as their webmasters. If you must know, I live and work in Los Angeles, but happen to lease webspace from a webhost in San Diego that has servers in Houston. Based on this, I hardly think that the implication of out-of-town-based interloper is justified - it merely sounds shortsighted to me!

Of course ... it was ... a joke. In point of fact, I'm merely the only poor fool to have chosen an in-town host. Sorry to have been interpreted so literally.