My life as a blog

Took a break from the blog yesterday. Good to have a break at least once a week, I think. Lay around lots (I think I had not one, but two naps yesterday; I’ll call it resting my eyes), read a book (finished Foreigner by C.J.Cherryh), and even played a game on the PC (Galactic Civilizations).

Was thinking a bit about blogging and My Life Online as well. Actually I was thinking about the people who read this blog (or at least the people I know of who read this blog), and how their responses to anything I might write here can be completely different to what I expect. For example Someone Dear To Me* was recently slightly offended by a recent post I wrote – even though I thought it was completely innocuous and just me spending a morning doing typing practice. I guess the fact that I’m going to offend someone, sometime is going to be unavoidable. I do try to be careful what I say, and how I say it. I’ll just have to be prepared to apologise or justify myself when I do offend, I think!

As for My Life Online, well, on Friday I embarrassed myself a bit at work while providing some training on RSS to four of my closest colleagues. After a bit of a discussion on what RSS is, why you’d use it, and how you’d explain it to others, I thought I’d show them some of Bloglines’ features using my Bloglines subscriptions. I started showing them a few of the Big Names I monitor, like librarian.net, Free Range Librarian, and the Kept-Up Academic Librarian, and then thought I might look at some fun sites, like Cooking for Engineers, and Flickr Blog. And Boing Boing. Oh boy. I’d forgotten that I’d marked one Boing Boing post to keep because I wanted to show M, for a laugh. Because it was slightly risqué, I’d decided I wasn’t going to send it through work email. Well, I forgot it was there, and when I clicked on the link to Boing Boing, VOILÀ! There it was in all its glory (Note: Please be careful clicking on this link, if, for example, your boss is hovering close by. S/he probably won’t work out what you’re looking at unless s/he is paying attention, but still… ). At that point I wished I could run out of the room in a dignified manner. I’m still cringing when I think about it now.

*alias chosen because I don’t want to identify them.

P.S. This post is late because I am home today on a TOIL, and I’m taking my time about doing everything.

Categories: blogging, Internet