Password Protected Entries

Photograph: Building Reflections, Tokyo, Japan, March-April 2005, © Nick Varacalli. I’m starting to password protect some entries. Email me (using either the links on my site, my blog, or the one in your address book) to get the password for a particular entry. I know, I know, it sucks compared to the LiveJournal model. Sorry. I’m working on things like TypeKey support and other features to make it better.

Why am I password protecting entries?

  • There are things I don’t want anyone to read, but I want to blog about anyway. I find that re-reading my blog years later is a very useful thing. I can be cryptic, but sometimes that just doesn’t cut it. Either I forget what I was being cryptic about, or something is too obvious, and no amount of obfuscation will help.
  • There are things that I don’t want certain people to read. One notable example of this is people I work with. Juggling my blog and NerveWire, Merrill Lynch, and VistaPrint, though interesting, was not fun. There are also times when I’d like to be able to vent about something without actually impacting what I’m venting about. Social and group dynamics may fall into this category.
  • There are things that I don’t mind sharing with my friends, but I don’t want to be on the internet / googlable.
  • Because…

One Response to “Password Protected Entries”

  1. Sarah says:

    Do you take bribes against a compromosing but most curiosity-quenching post?

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