I announced to my manager a couple of weeks ago that I’d be leaving Yahoo! on March 3. Yesterday I informed the rest of my team. The final decision to leave has been surprisingly difficult, and still has me feeling very unsettled. I came to Yahoo! just over a year ago, after almost 10 years at my previous job. Leaving after such a short time is strange, especially since there is a whole lot of stuff left for me to learn and do.

It’s been a little too long since I kept the Debian Choqok packages as up to date as I’d like. This has lead to some issues, since bug #591100 really should have been fixed in time for squeeze. Then, when upstream stopped pushing their svn changes to gitorious and moved their actual development to kde.org’s local git hosting, all my branches got screwed up, leading to further delays. I think this is fully resolved at this point.

It’s amazing to ponder the fact that, when I look at any photograph taken over almost the past century, my grandfather existed somewhere on Earth in that same sliver of time. In any of the famous pictures from the Great Depression, the second World War, the Atomic Age of the 1950’s American Dream, and the Space Age of the 1960’s, Stuart Meyerhans was somewhere when that photo was taken, doing something, being someone.