Tech Tip: Blog Profile

A fairly accurate pictorial representation of me on this blog.... (Look! There's even Devnagari script on that open book!)
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As the semester is coming to a close, I was doing some clean-up work around here and needed to reflect on how I wanted my online identity to look (in regards to this blog) moving forward. The fact that this is linked to my Google Plus profile is a pretty big deal, as I'm usually pretty locked down on what I share of myself online. However, upon going through everything, I've decided on a few things:

• I'm happy to leave my original self attached to this body of work. 
• If it can help future students, great. If it's simply of interest to someone else, that's neat too. I know I certainly will be using it as a reference to look back on, since it's sort of a personal online library of all the (indian epic) things I need to know/remember/want access to quickly. 

I'm still brewing....
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• I have an understanding, and I hope the readers of this blog will too, that this is very much a development of myself, a work in progress. Er, I could phrase it like I'm a cup of tea that's still brewing... Cheesy, Cheesy.
•  The majority of the content was interest driven, and as such, it isn't perfection. Regardless, I am confident that I would be happy to discuss the content of anything left on this blog with anyone that comes across it. So, if you're curious about something, just ask. 

Upon Reflection: 

    The act of thinking about how I want my blog and my personal identity viewed online from here on out caused some reflective processes to get started again. As a general rule, I don't share a whole lot online.... I did too much of that in my earlier life, and not that I regret anything that I shared, on the contrary, it felt like a very one-sided perspective of my world. Whatever I created to be put out there was what would be the image of my life, whether it was accurate, or skewed, or slightly left of truthful, etc. Now that I am a parent, I refuse to put my son's name online, so long as I can help it (and keep those in my life from helping it also). It's his story, his personal identity, and one day we can talk about how he wants to be viewed on the world wide web, but for now, I won't be creating his space online for him. 

     However, the creativity that this blog jump-started in me again was so much fun! It was an outlet that I forgot I actually enjoyed, a space to create, share, engage -- I forgot that the online community is just that too, a community! So, perhaps for me there are still worthwhile endeavors online for me to pursue that allow for that creative outlet I have recently been shutting out of my life. This was the perfect swift kick in the butt to remind me of the joy of creating and sharing in a community. In summary, I am actually comfortable leaving myself attached to this particular blog, as the content is something I truly enjoy and am wholeheartedly interested in. I'm even considering starting another blog: a bold new territory for me has begun -- the world of blogging!