Like most other law students with an online presence, I purged my MySpace, Facebook and Friendster accounts of anything that suggests a demeanor other than "professional" right before on-campus interviews.
Now that I have a job offer I want, I can relax a bit on the social networking sites, but the blog remains a major problem, especially if I start writing about the social stuff you've told me that you crave. The issue came to a head when I last visited home and found this site bookmarked on my dad's computer, even though I never told him about it and it is in no way connected to my real name.
So how can be sure that nobody from your future firm hears you complain about the quality of box seats or the choice of Broadway musical for your summer outings? If you have your own domain (sorry blogspotters), you can create an .htaccess file following these simple steps, upload it to your public_html directory and poof, nobody from 1800dialatort.com can read about why you hate working there.
A word of warning: on your first day, go to your blog and then check your sitemeter to see if it works. If not, see if your hit came from another domain name, since not all businesses use their website/email domain for web traffic. Better safe than sorry.
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