As if blogging about blogging isn’t ridiculous enough, I’ve recently discovered something very distubing about the words I put here – people are reading them.

It’s not just a few friends and family either. People at work read it. Some are people I don’t know. Others are people I know somewhat. More are people that work in the same group as me and I might have lunch with. It gets really scary when my boss and people who work for me start reading this drivel. I really should demand that my reports not read it as they’re wasting time that should be more usefully spent on our long list of projects to do.

The reason I know this is not because people have told me they read this or they’ve been posting comments. By default at Yahoo, your desktop computer is named the same as your email name. Worse, when you visit any web site on the internet, there are no protections to disable that name from appearing in the site’s logs there. Exploiting this fact, I went through the website logs on Boulter.com and ran a report on who was reading my blog.

It’s really bad when you interview a guy and he already knows you from your blog. “Yeah, you’re the geocaching guy!” Oh boy, I hope not.

Again I realize the irony of saying this, but it’s weird having people I know in one sphere of life being so aware of what’s going on in other parts of my life.

Oh well. There’s probably only one thing I’ll ever agree with Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, and it’s this quote: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”