The Time Has Come
Part of the reason why I started an LJ page was that so I can use it as my own little soapbox for whatever little thing I wanted to openly write about. The whole point of such an exercise was to make my opinions heard -- no matter how outrageous, badly reasoned or barely formed. However, with an increasing number of employers and prospective employers going online, looking at people's blogs and using what individuals have written against them, if you use your real name (which I initially did when starting this page) you are asking for trouble. As a result, I've had to post more and more protected access entries.

I won't do it anymore, and I refuse to use another special filter anymore... with one exception that I'll get to in a moment.

Starting today, I'm using the front page of The New York Times rule. If I'm comfortable with the information I'm posting being on the front page of the Times, I'll put it up here.

All other posts, are now going in a new LJ page I have not yet setup. There will be no filters on the new page, but I will only reveal the existence of that page to a very limited number of people. Please do not be offended if I do not include you on that list. It's not that I don't trust you, but rather that these are the only people I feel completely comfortable about exposing myself so honestly to. I will make one last special filtered post later today that reveals the name of my new LJ page. If you do not see this post, but you think I may be wrongly excluding you from its content, add a comment to one of my other posts asking me to please pass on the name of page and I'll gladly reconsider.

I hate doing this -- I wish there was another solution, but I see no choice in the matter.