It’s not paranoia if they’re really after you…
So there’s a little bit of a gap between my previous entry and this one. Two weeks or so actually, which is fairly unusual as I’m normally complaining about something new every week. It’s not my fault this time ( is it ever? ).
There is a certain feeling that comes over you when you know that someone might be listening in to your conversation, this feeling seems to have progressed into the digital age..
A little while ago I was talking on the phone to someone who is overseas at the moment, staying in a Hotel in South Africa. The conversation was fine for about 30minutes, then there was a click as if someone had picked up a phone, and then rapid tones indicating something like a speed-dial button being pressed. Although the conversation was in no way sensitive, the interuption and the possibility of someone overhearing the call quickly ended the call.
Then we have the mess that was the brief hosting of the Circle of Eight boards on this site. Here I am comfortably ranting away to a select group of people who have the misfortune of knowing my webpage address, and then suddenly there are thousands of people whom I have never seen before running around in a sub-folder, doing god knows what and totally changing the whole feel of the place.
It’s not like i’m posting personal things here, or that I have posted that much personal stuff online at all.It’s just that the idea of strangers visiting what is basically my own private corner of a very public place still bothers me.. which is why I wasn’t posting…
See, I told you it wasn’t my fault…
{edit} Edit for clarity {/edit}