In response to Virusdoc's question today about whether a blog is public or private, I decided to Google myself. You know, go to Google and type in your name and see what you get. Much to my surprise, a check on 'salguod' and 'Doug Schaefer' brought up this very web site as item #1. That's both pretty cool and a little scary. I, like my friend at Virusdoc, like to think of this blog as a sort of private journal of my own thoughts and musings. Yes, people I know come here and read my ramblings, but if you don't know about it you won't likely find it. Well, it seems much more public now.
So it may seem private as I type away, alone in my home office or at my desk on lunch break, but the whole world has access to my words. Better choose them carefully.
Yeah, I feel at the same time a little violated (because someone I don't know read my blog in a mean-spirited manner) and tremendously stupid (because I did, after all, put it on the internet for all to see.) I'm not quite sure how to deal with this. Perhaps I should put a disclaimer on my Comments template: "Please be aware, when posting comments, that the views expressed in this blog are personal and transient reflections and do not necessarily represented closely held or permament convictions of the author. Please give me the benefit of the doubt, or you might hurt me feelings." But that's just kind of dorky.
I guess if I want the freedom to post whatever, it has to come with the responsibility to get whatever comments come my way.
I'm often times amazed at how some people can stumble across our blog . . . It's definitely not a private endeavor.