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Category Archives: Personal

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 […]

Out and back again - returned from Sutter’s Fort

(Catching up with this post, since I started it but didn’t complete it when we got back from Sutter’s Fort.)
We returned to the 21st century on Wednesday 28 December, driving back with both girls and their good friend Mikaela. We stayed overnight on Monday at a homeschoolmate’s brother-in-law’s house in Sacramento. Thanks, Dylan! […]

Showing tonight on home science theater

Tonight I’m lining up these pages for some science video fun to watch with my girls. We’re looking for cool experiments to be inspired to try. Also, Malakai asked to see an old favorite we used to call “The Packet Movie” when she was three and four.

http://www.krampf.com/ Robert Krampf’s really cool science […]

Off to Sutter’s Fort

In a few hours I’m leaving with my daughters for a California History class trip to Sutter’s Fort, in old town Sacramento.
The entire class are dressing in period costumes and acting as docents for the various exhibits all throughout the day on Tuesday. I’ll be playing “Owen Sumner”, who came to Sutter’s Fort in […]

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 […]

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 […]