A conversation I had with WT led me to wonder how traceable this blog really is. Hey, it's a valid concern. Just read this article, on how blogs can be used against job applicants: Bloggers Need Not Apply. Ditto for future employers of the variety I am more personally familiar with.
A few searches on technorati.com turned up nothing of consequence. I'm not linked to many people so that minimises exposure. I have, essentially, 3 separate aliases, from the official to the casual to the weird pseudonym. The only relevant hit my birth cert name (sshhh... no blabbing it here :) Googles up is a (very ugly) shot of me in an IBO training session. The more commonly known alias is also, fortunately, too common to be much use. The exotic soubriquet is the most reliable handle on my online identity (the one-and-only on Google, the last time I checked), but is fortunately obscure, and should be getting more so now that I've got a new Gmail address.
There are always ways and means, of course, and this thing is still a public blog (and I intend to keep it that way), albeit not a search-friendly one. So, if you've gotten this far, you're probably all right. If not, do be assured that this blogger is one paranoid, mostly inoffensive individual with a healthy sense of self-preservation and a total lack of revolutionary fervour.
...at least, none that she will own up to. Hah.
Online paranoia extends to passwords, of course. No password is ever the same, practically none are dictionary words in any language whatsoever, and they can change on a whim. I love thinking up new passwords that are completely foreign yet deeply personal on the level that no one other than myself can fathom.
I shall stop before a prospective employer comes across this and decides that my seeming infatuation with secrecy suggests a duplicitous personality. Or something.
words were spilled on Sunday, August 14, 2005
Comments:
hey.. know why I never reply? coz u always write ur blogs in such beautiful language tt I can't rly think up an adequate reply haha.. U should write for a column in the newspaper or something... prob can earn some money :)
Anw the "inoffensive individual with a healthy sense of self-preservation and a total lack of revolutionary fervour" -- This part is rly funny.. Dun worry, no one will find ur blog guilty of anything subversive.. at least, none tt I've seen anw.
oh and I'm totally diff frm u when it comes to passwords. I only have 2 passwords tt I commonly recycle.. As a result my sister can log into any one of my accounts... even my user acct in my laptop.. and freely access my secrets. bleah.. that's the result of being too lazy.. haha
Anw the "inoffensive individual with a healthy sense of self-preservation and a total lack of revolutionary fervour" -- This part is rly funny.. Dun worry, no one will find ur blog guilty of anything subversive.. at least, none tt I've seen anw.
oh and I'm totally diff frm u when it comes to passwords. I only have 2 passwords tt I commonly recycle.. As a result my sister can log into any one of my accounts... even my user acct in my laptop.. and freely access my secrets. bleah.. that's the result of being too lazy.. haha
^--- yay! :D
passwords, heheh. the downside of having so many is that i sometimes forget the ones i seldom use. i created a guest acct on my laptop for my sis, but i guard my administrator privileges jealously. why? i don't really know.
write a column? /aghast/ about what?? there's a reason why i decided to flunk my sph interview...
passwords, heheh. the downside of having so many is that i sometimes forget the ones i seldom use. i created a guest acct on my laptop for my sis, but i guard my administrator privileges jealously. why? i don't really know.
write a column? /aghast/ about what?? there's a reason why i decided to flunk my sph interview...
guess we all need our privacy, even frm pple rly close to us like our sisters?
just read that article u linked to... it was quite interesting (but inherantly scary). there seems to be so many ways for our blogs to count against us, and for pple to interpret what we write negatively. wonder whether my future employer will google my name n dig out my blog next time *shudders*
u can write one of those weekly columns in the sunday news.. abt anything under the sun. perhaps not as a professional journalist (like wat SPH had offered in its scholarship), but as a freelance columnist? coz seriously.. u write well. :)
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just read that article u linked to... it was quite interesting (but inherantly scary). there seems to be so many ways for our blogs to count against us, and for pple to interpret what we write negatively. wonder whether my future employer will google my name n dig out my blog next time *shudders*
u can write one of those weekly columns in the sunday news.. abt anything under the sun. perhaps not as a professional journalist (like wat SPH had offered in its scholarship), but as a freelance columnist? coz seriously.. u write well. :)
