an intern for a us senator sent a nasty breakup letter to his gf in which he says that he is her “intellectual, moral, social, and emotional superior”, and that he “could make a phone call and have your life absolutely ruined”, among other hyperbole which makes him seem worse than the person he is describing. but as the saying goes, what goes around comes around because the email mysteriously got on the net and now everyone can see what an ass this guy is. instead of ruining the poor girl’s life, he’s ruined his own. if anyone ever does a google-check on him they’re going to come across this, it just goes to show you that you should really watch out what you say on the web because it will probably last forever. one of my friends once said to me that i should talk more about my life on my site and this is the exact reason why i don’t do such things. unless your site is hidden; no one links it and no one can guess the url, a spider may index it and save it. think about the google cache, even if a page has gone down you can still see it for a while afterwards. before i bought the orangefever domain, i had another domain thats since been deleted and my site lost forever, well so you think, because you can see what it looked like right here (ok so the css got messed up but the content is still there). i didn’t mirror it or do anything on purpose to have it saved. a bot just visited my site and made a copy. so when i see all those people who have online diaries i sometimes wonder if the things they say will ever come back to haunt them. people have to learn the same lessons they did when they first came across sites that wanted their email address or other information. just remember, it’s easy to switch email addresses but hard to switch lives.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: blogging