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January 23rd, 2006

Secret Squirrel

My friend (and soon to be Best Man) Jay posted on her blog today about keeping your blog secret for fear of opening cans of worms, particularly with her boss who gets a roasting on there once a week. I remember my initial hesitation as I’ve never been one for writing a diary, and when I did I would have never dreamed of people being able to look at it, especially people that knew me quite well.

I guess I’ve made a concious effort to not say anything here that I wouldn’t say to anybody if they were stood in front of me. If I say anything that could be construed as offensive it’s usually not about anyone that I would ever meet except in the most exceptional of coincidences. I try not to talk about life or career plans in too much detail for fear of upsetting family or bosses, although at the same time I haven’t gone out of my way to tell them it’s here.

Having not advertised my blog in any way, I’m constantly surprised when people come up to me and say they’ve read it. I always have to think on my feet about recent postings! I guess it’s going to happen when it’s on the homepage of my website. It’s the old thing of getting emails and checking out all the domain names on peoples e-mail addresses. Maybe if I moved my work to the homepage I would be rich and famous? No, didn’t think so.

I’m building a site for my brother-in-law (saves me updating this posting in 81 days) at the moment which I want to build a blog into, but I’m worried his postings may get it shut down, or get him arrested. Honesty is a tricky thing when you are in a public place. I’d love to be able to spill my guts here and use it as a method of de-stressing, but I don’t think that will ever be completely possible. Is there any point in doing it in that case? As a method of updating friends and family to what is happening in your life it works quite well, but only a) when I manage to post regularly and b) when I have something interesting to tell. Which isn’t very often. Hence his ramble…

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