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So (personhead)redbird says the google hitson my name might have been mostly people searching ritaxis, and so I decided to look at that out of curiosity's sake. It was about what I expected: about evenly me and the nice fellow in the first few pages, and a sprinkling of Frank's bbs activity and his Pokemon D&D thing, and one hit each for Meribel Taxis and some art student in Canada who signs his Deviantart page ~ritaxis. And then there's one or two references to a misspelled gastropod of the Caribbean and Florida shores also called "Adam's Baby Bubble," which is a dumb name for a snail.
Okay. That's not bad. But there are two or three hits to nonexistent sites which reference my private webstorage space. Get that: nonexistent. By private, I mean there are no links to that space anywhere that I know of. Of course I know that it's not deeply hidden: but it would take a bot or someone who knew me to uncover it. You shouldn't be able to find it by casually messing around not knowing what you're looking for. It's storage. Even though both of those sites are nonexistent, the references on Google do contain the whole address of . . . a novel that's being stored for safety in that space, and which is not meant to be read in that space, because it's in submission for normal print publication. I tried to get Google to remove those two dead pages, without success. I get cannot be displayed errors when I try to use the auto remove thing. Maybe I'll call them on the phone.
I looked at the cached pages, and they are identical. It looks like they were two attempts to create the same Mp3 site, and that they did use some kind of bot to gather links for the band featured on the page, which has the same name as my file (but not my novel). I wonder what they thought they were accomplishing by having such badly-vetted pages.
Look, I know I don't have my stuff stored in a top secret place, and I know it doesn't really harm me if someone gets a peek at my unpublished stuff. But, still: it shouldn't be that easy to find the stuff I'm not trying to show you.
On another front: I just got a call and I might be going out to check water quality on Soquel Creek around midnight tonight. NOAA is calling for at least .1 of an inch of rain stretching down to Monterey. This is thirty days, I think, since we got First Flush in Santa Cruz.
Okay. That's not bad. But there are two or three hits to nonexistent sites which reference my private webstorage space. Get that: nonexistent. By private, I mean there are no links to that space anywhere that I know of. Of course I know that it's not deeply hidden: but it would take a bot or someone who knew me to uncover it. You shouldn't be able to find it by casually messing around not knowing what you're looking for. It's storage. Even though both of those sites are nonexistent, the references on Google do contain the whole address of . . . a novel that's being stored for safety in that space, and which is not meant to be read in that space, because it's in submission for normal print publication. I tried to get Google to remove those two dead pages, without success. I get cannot be displayed errors when I try to use the auto remove thing. Maybe I'll call them on the phone.
I looked at the cached pages, and they are identical. It looks like they were two attempts to create the same Mp3 site, and that they did use some kind of bot to gather links for the band featured on the page, which has the same name as my file (but not my novel). I wonder what they thought they were accomplishing by having such badly-vetted pages.
Look, I know I don't have my stuff stored in a top secret place, and I know it doesn't really harm me if someone gets a peek at my unpublished stuff. But, still: it shouldn't be that easy to find the stuff I'm not trying to show you.
On another front: I just got a call and I might be going out to check water quality on Soquel Creek around midnight tonight. NOAA is calling for at least .1 of an inch of rain stretching down to Monterey. This is thirty days, I think, since we got First Flush in Santa Cruz.
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Tomorrow, no doubt, I'll learn that this is common locution everywhere because it's so obvious. Today, I give you credit for the locution.
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