19 Dec 2000 goingware   » (Master)

LinuxQuality

I just started the website for LinuxQuality at http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk and announced it to the linux-kernel mailing list.

I'm curious to see whether they still like this idea or think it's an imposition on their process. I didn't clear the idea with Linux or alan I just suggested it and decided to go ahead with it after a few people responded positively.

If you'd like to participate, please see the web page for instructions on subscribing to the linuxquality-dev mailing list.

New Home

Today I'll be mailing in my first payment for my new house in Maine, the first I've ever owned. I'm not actually living there yet as I'm spending Christmas with my in-laws at the End of the Internet.

While I suppose I could feel sad about all the payments yet to come I feel quite happy with what I got, especially considering the price differences and availability of space compared to where I used to live in Santa Cruz, near Silicon Valley.

The house cost about one-sixth the price of what the equivalent house would be in Santa Cruz. My house payments to own a four-bedroom house on nearly two acres of land with a two car garage are about two thirds of what I used to pay to rent two bedrooms in half a duplex with one car garage and only a tiny front yard in Santa Cruz.

Of course it's in Maine (we picked that because it's near my wife's friends and family in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, but it's easier for me to operate my business in the U.S.) but because I'm a consultant I can work pretty much anywhere.

My original reason for becoming a consultant was so I wouldn't have to commute to Silicon Valley anymore but once I made the break to working at home it wasn't that big a deal to working at the other end of the continent.

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