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Hey, no problem; I took it as you sincerely acting on your beliefs.

I guess you could do it by changing your username (though you can't take your karma to your reincarnation - unlike real karma). But I like your present username.



Thanks. That's part of the problem I'm currently stuck on, however. My current username is more expressive, and more "weighty" than my resume or linked in page.

If you google "e1ven", you see 14 pages, most of which are about me. My posts about the Zimbra mail server, the Freenet project, Slashdot comments, and the like.

That's far more expressive of my body of work/experience than my Facebook page, which I seldom use for anything, or my linked-in page, which I use as an addressbook which updates itself automatically.

The only advantage that those two do have is that they are specifically tied to my offline identity, which I can't easily change.


I didn't think about the same username across different sites - but of course most would do that. Makes what in some cases might have been a frivolously chosen name very sticky as you say.




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