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

[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.