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Onward, Ever Onward...

Next Wednesday is my last day at IBM - I have accepted a position as a technical editor with SitePoint, who are a young publishing (web and print) company based in Collingwood.

It's not a consulting role, although there may be some opportunities to get involved in SitePoint's web design division. It will definitely be quite different from what I have been doing at IBM, but I'm very excited about the role and about working with a young team who are doing some exciting things and dabbling in the latest web technologies.

I am also excited about working in the publishing industry. In many ways this role is a natural progression for me, originally kick-started in the early days when I first started this web site. opinios was borne out of a desire to satisfy the editor within - I would convince my creative friends and family to send in their photographs, poetry, short stories, artwork and and used to love putting it all together and publishing it as a collection of creativity. That was before web publishing got even easier and any old Joe could publish on the web themselves, so eventually the site evolved into the blog you are reading now.

Anyway, the opportunity to experiment with and write about technologies that I am passionate about was too enticing to pass up.

IBM is a very difficult company to walk away from. There are so many great people with whom I have worked over the past 15 months (and 3 years prior to my stint in Japan), and there were some interesting projects during that time that I was involved with. And they do reward their employees well.

However the time is right to move on and I am very much looking forward to joining the SitePoint team. Plus the timing is perfect as I have a few days off before I start the new job to print out my folio for my design course and hand it in.

Exciting times!