Another Hiptop quickie

[chipotle]

While I told myself not to keep doing this, Linvatec's IS group is working on the network again and I can't test anything that I've been working on. So.

The brief bout of Fall temperatures--at least by Florida standards--appears to be over. It was in the mid-70s when I left for work this morning before 8:00. Have I mentioned that this is a part of the state that I won't miss?

Things went well with mom yesterday--quite well. We spent most of the day together and I think she may even help me with expenses for the road trip west. This isn't to say she isn't upset in some ways (as she would put it, she's already grieving) but it's something she'd like to be able to do. She chastized me a little for only planning to do this over one week instead of two.

I don't say it often enough: I have a pretty cool mom.

Despite grumps with IS' timing, work is also going well. My only concern is getting too far ahead of schedule and running out of work too early. No, I wouldn't mind heading out on the road trip a week early or hving more time to coordinate moving my furniture out there, but another week of pay would sure be nice.

Last but not least I'm considering moving my journal off the front page of my website. For LJ readers this would be no change at all; it'd be an extra click for anyone reading it at ranea.org. This is, I'll be honest, an element of mild paranoia on my part; employers do sometimes put candidates' names into search engines, and getting Too Much Information can be a problem. I'd rather it not be made quite that easy--granted, they only have to give a second glance rather than a first, but that's as far as I can realistically go anyway at this point.

Comments

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

Well, Googling isn't guaranteed to find it, actually: my full name doesn't appear on the journal, only my first name. It may not be worth the effort anyway, though, since it'll only "hide" the first entry unless I delink the journal from the home page completely. Which I've considered. I've removed direct links from my site to stories, though, and grudgingly removed the word "furry" from the bibliography page. My "professional" portfolio site doesn't link back to the personal page at all and hasn't for a while.

I know this isn't going to stop anyone who digs more than a couple links deep from putting that all together, but it may be what a long-ago boss described as the art of the mutually unacceptable compromise: nobody's particularly happy with it, which may mean it's as good as you're gonna get. I don't really want to make it difficult for fans to find out stuff.

I suppose as long as the "top" journal entry doesn't have a lot of kvetching or overt wierdness that'll be sufficient. I guess I have to tacitly rely on any recruiter doing this search to not be patient enough to read far back in the journal.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Google's cache is likely to remain for a week or two (at least) even if you do change the page.