I haven't written anything here for a while now. This is due to a few factors - 1) buying a puppy and therefore being more busy at home than before, 2) being more busy at work than before (I feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants most of the time in the recent past). But at least partly there's another reason too - a feeling of being slightly over-exposed on the internet. Between this site, our personal site, sites like Facebook, etc, and some skill at using search engines, I became aware that you could actually find out a LOT about me and my life. More than I expected, perhaps, and more than I was 100% comfortable with. Perhaps I am an old fuddy-duddy with outdated thoughts on the social internet.

So, I've locked down this Space to people on my friends list - despite having started it for general public consumption about impersonal things, I ended up talking more about my life and so am less willing to share that with the entire world. Over on our personal site, I've locked down our wedding photos, etc behind a username/password. And my Facebook profile is set to not allow indexing by search engines, and most of the detail on my profile is only for friends, or friends of friends.

Over-reacting? maybe. I want three "me"s - Work Me, Personal Me, and Annonymous Me. Work and Personal can overlap to some extent without much concern (since personal me is not in the least bit controversial). Annonymous Me is an interesting one. What do I have to hide? It's not that I want to hide something from the people I know or work with. Actually it's the opposite! I don't want to share my personal stuff with the world at large. But I guess part of me still wants to share something publicly. Certainly this Space was 99% read by the public and not by people on my friends list! So I'm going to try and maintain two blogs from now on - one for work/personal and one for annonymous ramblings. Let's see how its going to work... (not that I have much time to write anything, anyway!)