Posts I don't
May. 31st, 2006 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI never kept a diary, but now I have a journal anyway there's a few things I do want to put on it anyway, but for no-one to read. Sorts of posts I make private:
* Interesting ones. Eg. I've started a new job for £[money], snogged [person] and [person], and am developing the controversial political view [foo]anism.
* Boring ones. I like to have a record of what I was doing on such a day (eg. to know how long it was since I did something I need to renew), and if I don't have anything to say about it, I'll have a private post saying "Sat. Visited [name] in london. Coffee with [name]. Read newspaper on train. Renewed railcard."
* Ranty ones "Agh! Why is the world against me? Why am I so [negative trait]? I feel really [bad emotion] because I [relatively minor mistake]. Also I REALLY REALLY HATE AUTOMATED MENUS! F**************CK" This releives my feelings without making anyone else read them.
* Aborted posts Something I write something and decide it's not or never will be ready. If I want to work on it I'll copy it to my text file of thoughts to spod, otherwise I may just post it privately.
* Like the previous two, would be a post, but give people a bad impression of me. Eg. "Wooooo! I snogged [nice person], I am teh l333t!" or "Wow! They're STILL paying me two years on![1] And I'm earning £[n]0000![2]" or "I fell off my [conveyance] and hurt my [self]. Boo hoo."
I think I'd be ok with mum reading all of these, but anything important gets c&p'd. Anything really private should go in an encrypted text file, but there never is. If people accidently see something, well, maybe it was meant.
[1] When I make my first million selling free software[3] I'll still in private dance and say "Wooo! I'm successful".
[2] That's an exclamation mark, not a factorial. I read about the chinese sage who was beheaded 2for each square on a chess board-1 times, and have no intention of trying to repeat that here.
[3] Conscience: That's impossible.
Me: Nothing's impossible. You just have to want it really hard.
C: Oo-er.
Me: Shut up.
C: That is, bullshit. However hard you try you can't make the sun rise.
Me: I already did, smart boy. Besides, people actually do sell free software. Writing the code is far from all the cost to actually getting something installed for someone, and there are many successful companies that fill that niche.
[4] I nearly tagged this private because it's *about* private posts. But that would be confusing. Conversely, tagging private has been shown to be a good thing, because if you leave one open people tell you, but if you just say "Mon. Coffee. Veizla emails. Pizza. Simon Sorcerer," people think you're being boring and terse :)
* Interesting ones. Eg. I've started a new job for £[money], snogged [person] and [person], and am developing the controversial political view [foo]anism.
* Boring ones. I like to have a record of what I was doing on such a day (eg. to know how long it was since I did something I need to renew), and if I don't have anything to say about it, I'll have a private post saying "Sat. Visited [name] in london. Coffee with [name]. Read newspaper on train. Renewed railcard."
* Ranty ones "Agh! Why is the world against me? Why am I so [negative trait]? I feel really [bad emotion] because I [relatively minor mistake]. Also I REALLY REALLY HATE AUTOMATED MENUS! F**************CK" This releives my feelings without making anyone else read them.
* Aborted posts Something I write something and decide it's not or never will be ready. If I want to work on it I'll copy it to my text file of thoughts to spod, otherwise I may just post it privately.
* Like the previous two, would be a post, but give people a bad impression of me. Eg. "Wooooo! I snogged [nice person], I am teh l333t!" or "Wow! They're STILL paying me two years on![1] And I'm earning £[n]0000![2]" or "I fell off my [conveyance] and hurt my [self]. Boo hoo."
I think I'd be ok with mum reading all of these, but anything important gets c&p'd. Anything really private should go in an encrypted text file, but there never is. If people accidently see something, well, maybe it was meant.
[1] When I make my first million selling free software[3] I'll still in private dance and say "Wooo! I'm successful".
[2] That's an exclamation mark, not a factorial. I read about the chinese sage who was beheaded 2for each square on a chess board-1 times, and have no intention of trying to repeat that here.
[3] Conscience: That's impossible.
Me: Nothing's impossible. You just have to want it really hard.
C: Oo-er.
Me: Shut up.
C: That is, bullshit. However hard you try you can't make the sun rise.
Me: I already did, smart boy. Besides, people actually do sell free software. Writing the code is far from all the cost to actually getting something installed for someone, and there are many successful companies that fill that niche.
[4] I nearly tagged this private because it's *about* private posts. But that would be confusing. Conversely, tagging private has been shown to be a good thing, because if you leave one open people tell you, but if you just say "Mon. Coffee. Veizla emails. Pizza. Simon Sorcerer," people think you're being boring and terse :)
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Date: 2006-06-01 07:17 am (UTC)However, even if it happened again, your private posts don't sound like a potential for public anguish :)
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Date: 2006-06-02 11:53 pm (UTC)