I’ll still spend a little time going through old posts getting rid of things that no longer need to be here, mostly posts with dead links but the occasional one where all I’ve done is rant.

I think you’d be as OK as could be with your history anyway. You’ve tended to be quite circumspect, and it would be a very determind or lucky child who stumbled on anything really useful in the cheeky comeback stakes. You’re other half, for instance - you harldly mention her.

At the end of the day, if you’re a good teacher, who relates in anyway to kids, you’ll say and do things in the classroom that give them that. When I think back, all the best teachers had a bit of give and take there. One drank in the same pub as the senior pupils, another was in the local rugby club, another had had a chequered life before teaching and used to relate stories form this life as part of our social ed. And each and every one of these were among the best teachers at the school. Iguess what I’m trying to say is that of you censor your blog, what else would you have to censor?

I take the point that the blog should show what I am like, the fully formed Me but I’m not sure that keeping all the old posts is the best way of doing this.
Over the four years I’ve been blogging my reasons for doing so have changed, now I want this to be as representative of me as possible, whereas in the past it was more of a place for me to play with bits of code, grumble when they don’t work, and rant about other silly things that had annoyed me. In my real, off-line life I like to think I’m as open and honest as possible, and approachable. In the past I perhaps wasn’t that person - I’ve done a lot of growing up in the last four years, they’ve been some of the most formative years of my life - and that change is relfected in some of the archived posts so if this site is to reflect me accurately then I think I have to get rid of a lot of the old bits. (I’ve been trying to write that sentence for a long time but I can’t stop it sounding like I have a horrible past that I’m trying to cover up!)

The future for foolfillment? I think it’s bleak. There’s no question of stopping blogging yet though.

Your blog shows who you really are , what you think and where you come from - both physically and historically. The bottom-line is - it’s up to you.

I’m sure I read a blog recently from a young teacher/student about a pupil finding their MySpace account… I’ll see if I can fall across it again and let you know who it was.

Also, there was some good advice recently on John Connell’s blog.