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derf inside-out

in order to explain this area of my site, i will now quote myself:

i've been thinking about starting a journal for a while. i figure if i'm going to keep a journal at all, it may as well be online. that might sound like an odd theory, but ... well, it makes sense in my head. and that's what this is all about -- what's in my head. hence the title, "derf inside-out". pretty cheesy, eh? i think so.
that's the first paragraph of my first entry. the rest of the following explanation of what my journal is comes from bits of my first two entries.

i figure the content of my journal fits neatly into four categories:

  • i sometimes talk about personal stuff, having to do with relationships, and people, and that sort of thing,
  • i sometimes talk about technical stuff, having to do with programming, and configuring linux, and that sort of thing,
  • i sometimes talk about my journal, in a meta- kind of way,
  • and i sometimes just talk about what i did today.
in principle, i could try to keep separate journals, one for each of those, but i think it'll be more interesting this way. :) if any of my (currently hypothetical) readership only finds some of these categories of things interesting, then they'll just have to either skip the parts they're not interested in, or read someone else's journal. i'm doing this for me, thank you very much, not for you.

also, i should make really clear that the entries which fit into that first category will really be quite personal, at least some of the time. so here's my disclaimer:

if you think that maybe you don't really want to know the details of my personal life, you should not read my journal.

if you are interested in reading my journal, you'll need to fill in your email address in the form below. you will then immediately receive a password which will give you access to my journal. i have set this up mainly to be completely sure that none of these pages get indexed by any search engines (yes, i know i can indicate that in the robots.txt file, but i don't know that i trust them to obey those directives). and also, i ask for your email address because although i am happy to share my journal with anyone, i would like to know who i am sharing it with. actually, i don't really feel a need to know necessarily, but i want to be able to know, so that anyone who would not want me to know that they've seen it, won't see it. maybe i'm being paranoid here, but, well, humor me, ok? i promise i won't do anything with your email address except put it in a logfile that i'll occasionally look at. and yes, if you really feel a need to be anonymous, i suppose i can't stop you from using a yahoo or hotmail account or something which is not really your address, and then i won't really know who you are...

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if it doesn't work, please let me know! thanks!

if it did work, you can enter derf inside-out

note that i have removed the old login (username "insideout"), so if you're still using that, you'll have to request a new login. sorry.

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