10
October
2004
|
18:15 PM
America/Los_Angeles

Tom Watch:I have rarely met a thought I didn’t like at 3am in the morning…Perils of Blogging #1

I have a problem and an opportunity in that I can publish at any time of the day or night.


I’m sure everyone has had the experience of sending an email to someone when on further reflection you would rather have not. My fear is that I will publish something I would rather have not.

I’ve fallen into a geek engineer coder schedule, which is 10am to 3am. The late night hours are quiet and a good time to write. But my judgement at that late hour has always had a spotty record.


I constantly remind my colleagues to edit my late night entries as soon as they awake. And edit them for clarity and stupidity. But if I file after 3am, they won’t see this for a few hours at least, and thus won't be able to delete potentially embarrasing copy that has already been spidered and seen by millions(potentially!)


Which means I should probably stay away from 3am posts.