think tank forum

how do you?

i have my professional online presence:
http://www.lucasreddinger.com/
http://www.lucasreddingerphoto.com/

but i also have my unprofessional (i.e., personal) online presence:
http://www.thinktankforums.com/
http://www.wingedleopard.net/lucas/
http://www.facebook.com/lucasreddinger
http://twitter.com/lucasreddinger

what to do? i don't really want potential employers exploring the depths of thinktankforums.com or wingedleopard.net . but i want those sites to be available to the general public that is searching for information.

do you keep your facebook profile pretty clean in case a potential employer or professional colleague finds it? what about twitter?

Writing "potential employers" in a post here probably doesn't help. :)

Facebook and twitter suck because no matter how careful you are to keep your profile clean, your friends can screw it all up for you.

I have kind of given up on doing much segmenting. I do it a little bit still in the sense that I use asemisldkfj on here and a couple other places, but have switched over to my full name otherwise. I keep my Facebook privacy settings such that anything a potential employer could see is not like a picture of me drunk or something. I like having my Twitter public and under my full name because most of the appeal of it for me is the networking aspect.

> Facebook and twitter suck because no matter how careful you are to keep your profile clean, your friends can screw it all up for you.

not if you're on top of your privacy settings. i'm not that paranoid about people posting stuff on my wall so i leave wall posts shared. then again i don't have tagged photos shared though because some people can be lame about photos.

I'm almost entirely talking about wall posts...I don't have incriminating pictures because I don't do incriminating things.

(or if I do, I don't do them with people who take pictures :)

you can block the sharing of wall posts too though is what i'm saying, if you have friends who say or post incriminating things other than photos.

Yeah, I've always had viewing of wall posts limited to only my friends. The problem occurs when an employer etc. befriends you and is suddenly able to see those things.

Sucks decided between refusing someone important and deleting wall posts.

1. everybody wears the mask, but how long will it last?

2. if it costs too much, put it back.

which is more disturbing to a potential employer? 1. a large amount of information that tells a lot of mixed stuff 2. a tight control over publicly distributed information - thus a clear absence of information. assuming that the mixed information presented in 1 gives a neutral (in net does not add or detract from your total qualifications) impression, all else equal you will become more attractive to risk averse employers.

however, i think it would actually be the opposite. someone who is used to communicating fairly publicly would probably be seen as pretty risky.

here's how i segmented:

TARTAN (professional)
STRIPES (personal)

both are complete with icons (aka favicons ]: ).

I've decided I'm going to just merge all my online presences slowly.

Truthfully, I just don't care what people think of me and my craziness anymore.

ugh, i just googled my name, and google image search shows far too many things. damnit.

It's doesn't seem to be that bad?

This one's probably not your best, though :-/

http://static.wingedleopard.net/lucas/photos/b/00000892.jpg

yep, that's the one in particular that i didn't like floating around. ugh

there! quickly went through and pulled the really bad ones.

segments redefined!

lucasreddingerDOTcom -- professional stuff, repo access, etc
foreverlarzDOTcom -- personal stuff
fierybowelsDOTcom -- personal health stuff
thinktankforumDOTcom -- the web forum i run
wingedleopardDOTnet -- my network infrastructure

i'm excited to get this all going nicely!

The ttf segment got broken it seems?

> Notice: Undefined index: offset in /home/lucas/web/thinktankforum-com/forum.php on line 12

> HEY GUYS
> Notice: Undefined variable: jump in /home/lucas/web/thinktankforum-com/forum.php on line 131

yeah, sorry. i enabled php displaying errors to debug another project. i noticed it here and just left it because i thought i'd fix those php errors in the ttf code instead of hiding them

Hurray for fixing stuff \o/

just hid them again instead. :o

I like your wingedleopard web page

yay

haha thanks...

I'm building a Wifi-connected irrigation controller for my patio garden (see demeter). Going to use wingedleopard.net for my smart home projects and network domain. But I had some Apache configuration troubles and got frustrated (that's why wingedleopard.net said "FUCK YOU" for a bit while I was debugging it).

I'm about to sign up for a 12-month reserved (cheaper) t2.small VPC EC2 instance (no upfront) in AWS's Oregon data center. t2.small supports 2 Elastic Network Interfaces with 4 IPs each. Gonna have a well-configured shared hosting solution as a result:

ip-a: www.wingedleopard.net (HTTPS only)
ip-b: www.lucasreddinger.com (HTTP and HTTPS)
ip-c: www.thinktankforum.com (HTTP and HTTPS)
ip-d: name-based virtual host (HTTP only)

Right now I only have 2 IPs, which creates problems when you visit HTTP on my name-based vhost IP. (For example, https://www.wingedleopard.net/ throws a warning page in Firefox.)

> just hid them again instead. :o

You could work as an enterprise programmer.

I used to!