It took a week

...for my brilliant plan to block certain users from seeing this blog to be defeated by a certain clever hacker. Apparently, you can get around the .htaccess block by having Google do your dirty work for you - the blocked user just views the Google cache of the site. It's a few days late, but it still works. I'm looking into stopping Google from caching the site.

Perhaps I need to start a new blog that isn't linked to from old ventures.