Tomorrow I start employment at YellowPages.com / AT&T Interactive. Though I’m very excited and can’t wait to get started, there is still plenty of sadness and disappointment about leaving The Times.

If someone were to ask me exactly why I was leaving, I couldn’t do much better than pointing them to this post by Jeff Atwood and drilling down to this quote:

Also, having programmers who believe that their employers actually give a damn about them is probably a good business strategy for companies that actually want to be around five or ten years from now.

I could go on and on, citing specific examples but really what would be the point? I’d burn bridges and embarrass the people I know and respect who are still there. That’s really not my style.

Instead I’ll just say I had an amazing time while working for The Times and I’m very proud of the work we did for Topics and the Archives. Those will hopefully stay around and benefit the world at large.

But that’s all in the past now. Tomorrow is a new day, filled with new challenges.

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