Stupid body

[jack]

Stupid body. Today promises to be fairly good, so body wakes up at 9.00 (not to mention 7.00). It didn't want to sleep at 12.00 (not to mention 11.00), oh no, but it jumps out of bed saying "Tiredness go to tell! Go to it and coffee take the hindmost." So much for rolls of more than one day :)

Also, I'm getting more paranoid about public postings. I don't want to go friends only, as I like the idea that people who know me, or people who might be interested in me, can have a look. But the idea of 4th removed people only, or only people with some reasonable uniqueness (a la facebook), or something is starting to appeal. Apart from the desire not to be naked in front of potential real people, eg. future bosses, I turned on some notifications for a bit, and realised someone (silent_and_calm) was friending me twice a day. Apparently a bot friending new public entries. Presumably someone's aggregation system of some sort? But it makes me realise how different data being randomly available is to data being aggregatedly available.

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

"Tiredness go to tell! Go to it and coffee take the hindmost."

That's going to be my new motto for today, typo and all. :-D

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

I don't think you say anything particularly incriminating in public posts. I do know that one of my friends, recycled_sales, has recently come under investigation from his former employer for being snarky about the company (and naming them!) in public posts. But I don't think you'd do anything silly like that.

I've had trouble with the random friending bots too. sable_debutante has friended me and the posts are just a mishmash of random texts. Worryingly, if you post a comment the reply is an amalgamation of your public posts. I'm not too worried about that though, as nothing that exciting happens in my public posts. ;)

[dragonwoodshed.livejournal.com]

The magical world of LJ has turned me into something of an exhibitionist, it's a heady thrill, the kindness of strangers. Only a matter of time now till I'm taking my clothes off in public. Run away.

[cornute.livejournal.com]

I actually would also prefer that the me who goes to work at my job stays publicly separate on the internet from the me who is openly controversial about several very touchy subjects-- but rather than shut up about those, I just chose to hide stuff about my work instead. Anything more personal than "yes, I have a job, and I work nights" goes in a filter of people I trust, with it being easier to get into that filter the further away you are from me.

Then again, if I were an employer looking up information on a prospective employee, I would look more for form than content-- and, actually, I would rather see that someone knew where to air their controversial opinions, instead of taking the chance that they'd do it at work instead.

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I posted this from work, by the way.

[mair_in_grenderich]

I refuse to write entries that can't be read by people I consider as close friends as any on my LJ friends (although I suppose there's potential for, say, mirroring my locked-LJ to somewhere behind a password which I could supply people with, er, complicated). sometimes though there are things I want to say which I don't feel I can post public, either something negative about someone at work who will almost certainly never read it, or someone specific I don't want to see the entry for some particular reason. even if the person concerned is someone like my dad who to the best of knowledge doesn't know of my LJ and isn't likely to have the stalking-foo to find it, (.. though I link it off my website), I don't post that stuff.

on the other hand these days I often don't post semi-sensitive stuff on LJ anyway, I've probably talked it out on IM (or email or phone) with the people I really want to talk it over with. or it's tied up with other people and I don't know how much of it they want to see on LJ.

people whose journals are routinely friends only are terribly annoying when one wants to show some apparently harmless but locked content to another friend (with no LJ or not friended by the person in question). (eg naath's posts about cycle routes through london). then of course there are moral issues: if it looks repeatable to me is it ok for me to repeat it to someone I trust, or must I always ask first?

I couldn't get to sleep last night, and woke up at 6:30. crawled out of bed at 7:15 and caught the 7:55 train from bristol. I drank lots of coffee in the lab which necessited lots of visits to the toilet, and since I've lost my lab key, every visit necessited lurking outside the lab door until someone with a key came along. mooooo!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I agree entirely, just very slightly less entirely than I did hitherto :)

although I suppose there's potential for, say

You could create a flurbleangel account for guardian angels, ie. make one lj account with a generic name, add it to your friendslist, and give the password to that to close non-lj friends.

Mum has an lj she never uses, I made for her to read my public flocked posts (ie. anything not locked to a particular subset of friends)

[mair_in_grenderich]

do you have your LJ googlable? if you have an LJ that is not googled, not under your own name, and not linked to from anywhere, it's unlikely to be found by, well, by non-random stalkers such as work or family (well, your mum knows yours anyway, but for the rest of us).

I have another friend who has a blog which he doesn't want stalked, hosted on his own webspace, but he makes efforts not to have it linked from anywhere (and watches his webserver logs for unexpected IPs visiting it). Then he just gives out the url to people he doesn't mind knowing it.

mm, anything involving giving-password-to probably annoys people who don't want to remember Yet Another Password.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I started it with my real name; I'm not sure if I could/should change that now. Though I'm obviously thinking about it. I did that because I didn't think I could keep them separate -- I was sure someone would use the names in conjuction, or notice the IPs, so I thought it better to make it public to remind myself that it was.

Somehow the pseudonym feels *one* place removed even if not anonymous -- if I hire John Blogger Smith I'm getting the blog reputation, but if I hire Susan Jones who blogs under "LittleMissPiggy", I'm not?

mm, anything involving giving-password-to probably annoys people who don't want to remember Yet Another Password.

Yeah, true. Nowadays they could maybe subscribe to it and have posts emailed :) Or the password could be your surname or something.