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Microsoft has a fin­an­cial year that matches Australia’s fin­an­cial year: July to June.

Each fin­an­cial year the cards are thrown up into the air, and depend­ing on which tar­ots are on top: the organ­isa­tional entrails are read and the future is fore­told. Or, at least that is what it seems like from deep in the trenches of “individual con­trib­ut­or” from “subsidiary” land (I am quot­ing the management-speak, just incase you think I’ve totally lost the plot)

What does that mean for me?

Thanks to an excel­lent man­ager, Anna Liu, and a very flex­ible organ­isa­tion: I get to change my job a little.

Half what I’ve been doing: web/blogging/on10.net/videos and sun­dry jour­ney­man things for DPE in Australia.

And Half Web Devel­op­ment Evan­gel­ism.

Which is really cool. C#, Iron­Py­thon, Iron­Ruby, Sil­ver­light, Vir­tual Earth, Live Mesh et al: here I come!

Why the change?

Time to become more cre­at­ive, build things. Help oth­ers build their things.

Also a change is as good as a hol­i­day. My syn­apses were start­ing to atrophy.