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I'm a big fan of social networking on the internet. I use LinkedIn for professional contacts and I hang out on Facebook for both work and fun. I tweet away on Twitter to colleagues and I have accounts on StumbleUpon, Delicious and various other Web 2.0 applications.
But I was rather taken aback today to receive an exclusive beta invitation to Bedpost. This is a social networking site too far. I'm well aware that whatever you post on the net stays on the net. Forever. Which is why I won't be signing up to Bedpost. I don't have the inclination to record all my past conquests on somebody else's website, no matter how reassuring the privacy policy is. And I certainly don't want my sex life hanging around in cyberspace for ever. Some things are best kept private.
They say that in space no one can hear you scream. In cyberspace, I fear the world hearing past screams of pleasure.
This is Web 2.0h.no rather than Web 2.00000h.yesyesyes.
Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
07 August 2008
26 February 2008
Five things...
...you didn't yet know about me.
1. I once had an on-off fling over several years with a very famous Fleet Street hack* when I was a teenage apprentice journo. And no, before you ask, it did not advance my career. Probably quite the opposite.
2. I never completed my indentures as the mag I trained on went bust 6 months before I would have qualified. This was in the days before you could study hackery at university, so I don't have a degree in journalism. Or any NCTJs.
3. I don't have any shorthand either and I type with 1 and 1/2 fingers. Why? Because the mag I trained at was run on a shoestring and couldn't afford to send me to day release college. I manage.
4. My favourite meal is roast chicken with all the trimmings and when I'm not slaving over a keyboard I am slaving over a hob. I have twice been a professional cook (between hacking jobs) and am damn good at it.
5. I sometimes pick fights with colleagues. But only over professional issues I feel passionate about. These might include the NUJ, the correct use of English and whether one ought to fiddle one's expenses. Well, you might think that, but I couldn't possibly comment.**
* Ask all you like but my lips are sealed. I don't kiss and tell.
** Disclaimer: I have never fiddled my expenses. I hate it when others do.
1. I once had an on-off fling over several years with a very famous Fleet Street hack* when I was a teenage apprentice journo. And no, before you ask, it did not advance my career. Probably quite the opposite.
2. I never completed my indentures as the mag I trained on went bust 6 months before I would have qualified. This was in the days before you could study hackery at university, so I don't have a degree in journalism. Or any NCTJs.
3. I don't have any shorthand either and I type with 1 and 1/2 fingers. Why? Because the mag I trained at was run on a shoestring and couldn't afford to send me to day release college. I manage.
4. My favourite meal is roast chicken with all the trimmings and when I'm not slaving over a keyboard I am slaving over a hob. I have twice been a professional cook (between hacking jobs) and am damn good at it.
5. I sometimes pick fights with colleagues. But only over professional issues I feel passionate about. These might include the NUJ, the correct use of English and whether one ought to fiddle one's expenses. Well, you might think that, but I couldn't possibly comment.**
* Ask all you like but my lips are sealed. I don't kiss and tell.
** Disclaimer: I have never fiddled my expenses. I hate it when others do.
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