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2009/10/29 Sam Urquhart <sam at mrsthinkythoughthead.com>:
> 2009/10/28 Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena at gmail.com>:
>>
>> It would be nice for me - my (online) social circle is mostly uber-geeks :)
>>
> Fair enough.
> I guess it just bothers me because my contacts list includes lots of
> people who aren't actually friends, just people I've had to email for
> whatever reason. And if I'm using gmail so might they be. Therefore, I
> don't necessarily want them to randomly find me dancing at sunrise in
> a pink wig in the Nevada desert, when they're looking for flights to
> the US, for eg.
> Y'know?

I no longer worry about such things after a photo of me looking
considerably more sober than I was, apart from the toilet seat being
worn as a head/neck ornament, features in the "History of London.pm"
keynote talk at the last perl workshop (attended by hundreds of my
peers) as well as at several larger perl conferences - for added
cringe factor, I emailed it as a joke to the web designer at $employer
and it now features as my profile photo on our live website.

On the plus side, nobody was sober enough to operate a camera as we
continued drinking after they kicked us out of the pub (so they could
lock up and go home), as things got worse when we raided the "amusing
foreign drinks" selection at our host's flat.

A.

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Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons
http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk
LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting