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Rob has mentioned that he won’t talk about Spinhome, his project to pull one over on everybody, via his ‘work’ blog,

It’s worth commenting again on my use of the IRC nick somegeek on freenode. What’s that about? Do I have two identities? Why do I need a separate nickname? Isn’t it confusing?

I have two main nicknames on freenode now, lilo and somegeek. I have two nicknames, but not two identities. Both nicknames are me.

I’ve sent up somegeek because I’m in an unusual position. As head of staff, I need to make it very clear when something is official, and when it’s not. The spinhome project is personal, not official.

So, if thats true, why is his away message (emphasis mine…)

[lilo] is away (I'm away for the moment. For URGENT freenode help (channel flooding, trolling users, network problems or access issues), please email my pager at 4iiygyvs@freenode.net . For ROUTINE issues, please see http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#gettinghelp .... Please take a look at my personal blog when you get a chance: http://spinhome.org .... Thanks!)

Also, why is the topic for #freenode-social, Freenode’s official social channel, (again emphasis mine…)

--- Topic for #freenode-social is Welcome to the Biggest 'Ol FOSS Network on the Planet, Y'all. d^) || /bin/flame > /dev/yallchill . Please, no trolling, soapboxing or astroturfing. Thanks! | For freenode support: http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#gettinghelp | http://freenode.net/channel_guidelines.shtml | Let's make this the best of freenode. | Lilo's personal blogs: http://bloggage.org/ and http://spinhome.org
--- Topic for #freenode-social set by lilo at Thu Jun 15 00:17:25 2006

For someone who wants to keep his ‘work’ identity seperate from his ‘personal’ identity, he’s not doing that good of a job. In fact, it looks like he is intentionally trying to confuse Spinhome as a lilo-supported PDPC project.

Well, which is it, Rob? Work or personal?