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Category Archives: Online life

Misrouted text messages

Pardon this off-topic post (for my Fedora category, anyway), but a large body of might-be Verizon text message users are reading this, and I’m interested in finding out if my situation is unique, typical, or endemic.
For the last few months I’ve been receiving from one to several incorrectly routed text messages a week. I’ve […]

Accessibility is the cornerstone of science and open enquiry

Over the last few years, I’ve watched and worked with my wife as she has managed her chronic disease using the web as one of her tools. Recently I had a mental flash — a connection between her success with open enquiry of field-specific experts, how access to the originators of new science is […]

Mental breaks while working at home

Over the years I’ve tried not to make a big deal out of being a remote employee, or remotee in Red Hat lingo. I’m a big proponent of distance work, and am now fairly experienced with the last seven years as a 100% telecommuter and distributed team member. But … the topic […]

Unstalling Fedora Docs

We’ve gotten pretty good at community written release notes. A few more silly bugs for Fedora 8 than before (and my bad for not helping to make them better — this is the first release since FC4 where I didn’t edit the entire release notes before they went over for translation), but really nothing […]

i, quaid has moved here

This is a marker post, ignore it since the value is entirely for me.
As announced in “I, Quaid, I have moved my blog to my personal domain, iquaid.org.
That’s it, carry on.
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Opening gambit

I’ve committed to myself to finally pull all my personal blogging into a proper online personality banner.  Hence “i, quaid” has been born.  To zero noise, since it is not syndicated to anyone yet, etc.
So, over the next few weeks I’ll be:

Updating places such as planet.fedoraproject.org and mugshot.org
Deciding if I am going to copy over […]

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“quaid” is the nom de Web of Karsten Wade.