It’s pretty purple! Serious blogs aren’t pretty purple. (Did you know that according to a study purple-covered horror books sell better?)

Anyway… I’m just a wee defenseless girl (har har) so that’s why I don’t want stalkers or axe murderers come ringing the doorbell. Then again, princes on white horses can’t come either. Bummer.

Because of the recognition, I’m not writing about my thoughts on my site that openly anymore. I mostly stay on technical topics now, with some occasional personal notes about travel or other general (neutral? safe?) subjects. Self-sensorship? I guess…

On the other hand, I also like the idea that if I’m writing something on a mailing list for example, people can use Google for better perspective by reviewing what else I’ve said. Naturally I have an idea of what the picture forming in their heads should look like, and hope that Google’s findings would support it.

So I shout my name on the net. You can even find me on IRC with my full real name. At this point it’s an old habit, but also a conscious policy. It would probably have been better to form the policy first, though, which is where threads like this are hopefully useful to others.

Also, I have to say this: I don’t shout my name on the streets, nor my opinions.

I rarely ever walk down the street shouting my name and giving my address to people. Why would I want to do so on the Net?

There is a site that I’m a webmistress of that has my whole name and that’s just because it’s a potential employer-trap (I don’t know how “representative” of my abilities it is; it uses Comic Sans which is the last font I would use on a site (right after Times New Roman) but I did what was requested.) Although, I’m afraid only my relatives would hire me — but who knows. This blog of mine has already earned me one job.

Actually, I’m pretty sure I’m being a little too paranoid and having my last name here wouldn’t cause any more people finding this nook of the web than nowadays (my site would be found on the last pages of Google). But, I rather be safe than sorry. I don’t know if I’d want my professors and employers etc. to see that I collect X-Files stuff and aliens…… and drool after David Duchovny.

(Well, to be exact, one of my employers does see this (*waves*) and possibly knows I collect aliens and drool after DD (if they didn’t, they certainly do now), but there’s not really much I can do about it Besides, they might’ve known it before they “hired” me.)