Your company may have a log of you accessing your external mailbox but they probably won't have access to the actual content of those messages. Everyone is listening I make a point of only writing in email those comments I would say to someone's face. You would be well advised to take the same tack. You must assume that somewhere down the line the person you refer to may see your comments, whether this is through some intentional meddling of a third party or merely a slip of the mouse. There should be no presumption that your email is private.
Email security is lax, at best.
Passwords can be guessed. Messages can easily be printed or forwarded to others without considering the content of messages. Do yourself a large favor and reserve your most critical comments for your journal. Web links Another casualty of recent litigation is the linking of one web site to another. There have been several recent cases in which employees were reprimanded or fired because they linked their company web site to their personal web site.