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3 August 2005 - 12:27 pm

Charlie thinks there is some risk involved in posting things, even fairly obfuscated things, about work. He makes a pretty good case, so my work-related entry has been relegated to draft status while I contemplate this. Better safe than sorry, I guess. It would be nice if mt had livejournal-esque private entries, but it doesn't, so I'll have to think about how to deal with this. If you have any suggestions, let me know.

Posted by on 3 August 2005 at 12:21 PM

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Write in code. Tell the people you want to know that you have replaced the words "work," "boss," "my co-worker," etc. etc. with things like "The mall," "The president," "My brother." It will get complicated, probably, but that's why it's called code.

Posted by Rachel on 5 August 2005 - 4:30 PM

While I appreciate your suggestion -- and it's a good one -- I've decided to take a slightly different approach. I like the concept of private posts that you see on livejournal, so I'm going to implement something similar for movable type. I already have it up and running on the main page and the archive pages. But I need to figure out a way to block comments from being displayed if someone figures out the link for them. This is made a bit more difficult because the comment pages are auto-generated. The easy solution would be to abandon the pop up comments and go to full page comments. But I'm not sure that's the best idea.

Whatever I end up doing, I hope to have it up and running sometime next week.

Posted by david on 5 August 2005 - 7:39 PM

If only other jobs had a notion of "tenure" you could say what you wanted.

Posted by rkc on 10 August 2005 - 10:59 PM

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If only other jobs had a notion of "tenure" you could say what you wanted. While I appreciate your suggestion -- and it's a good one -- I've decided to take a slightly different approach. I like the concept of private posts that you see on livejournal, so I'm going to implement something similar for movable type. I already have it up and running on the main page and the archive pages. But I need to figure out a way to block comments from being displayed if someone figures out the link for them. This is made a bit more difficult because the comment pages are auto-generated. The easy solution would be to abandon the pop up comments and go to full page comments. But I'm not sure that's the best idea. Whatever I end up doing, I hope to have it up and running sometime next week. Write in code. Tell the people you want to know that you have replaced the words "work," "boss," "my co-worker," etc. etc. with things like "The mall," "The president," "My brother." It will get complicated, probably, but that's why it's called code.
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