For the past few months, my department has been a pawn in a varity of
political games. This has effectively derailed or delayed every project I
was working on or would have started at the end of the spring semester.
About three weeks ago, decisions were made, changes were coming. I was
faced with the prospect of having to assist in the dismantling of the
technical infrastructure I had built up. Once finished with that, I would
be left with a very different set of duties than I had been doing over the
last two years.
No longer would I would be the person making all (or even most) of the
technical decisions. No longer would I be able to dabble in every aspect
of IT. No longer would I be researching and developing the policy.
Worse than all that though, was that I would be asked to do work that
didn't interest me intellectually.
With encouragement and assistance from a good friend, an opportunity
was presented to me that my wife and I were unable to pass up; a job that
would be a challenge, in a land of nearly perpetually nice weather. So
with less than 3 weeks notice, I find myself leaving America's Dairyland
and heading for Silicon Valley.
This of course means that I am leaving the happy-go-lucky world of
academic freedom and entering the world of non-disclosure agreements.
What this means for this blog is yet to be worked out. I would expect to
continue to be able to continue to write the types of pieces I have been
writing. There will definitely be a break for awhile as I find my feet in
a new job and in a new city.
