Brent wrote:
> Well, I did it. Sold out, kind of. As of December 7, I will no
> longer be a
> self-employed consultant, as I've been for the past eight years.
> Instead,
> I will be the new Webmaster at the Bank of Canada, a federal agency
> roughly comparable to the US Treasury Department.
>
> It was a tough decision in some ways. There are a lot of aspects to self-
> employment that I value and enjoy. But I also value financial stability,
> which self-employment has never entirely afforded me. And with my new
> extended family I also increasingly crave such arcane notions as "leisure
> time" (and paid vacations and medical benefits and pension plans and so
> on.)
But I thought one of the pleasures of "working for yourself" was being able
to take time off whenever you want? Heh, heh, double <g>. Good luck with
your new adventure, Brent.
> Anyway... my first priority will be a complete redesign of the Bank's
> current site, a project I'm really looking forward to. I'll also
> have some
> ancillary editorial responsibilities such as speechwriting, which
> I haven't
> done for quite a few years. I'm looking forward to an occasional break
> from agonizing over cross-platform Web design anomalies, truthfully :)
And now, with the AOL/NS thing, the cross-platform-browser-anomoly thing has
taken another twist. Previously AOL was one of the last things I tested
on...now I find myself downloading AOL4, just to get a feel for it.
Javilk had an interesting thought, something along the lines of "MS is
fronting the AOL purchase so that they can kill NS". Fun little consiracy
theory...Steve Case did say that he plans on continuing to incorporate IE
after Jan 1st, when the MS/AOL browser agreement comes up for renewal. If he
goes with the NS browser, then all the ISP's that are distributing NS will
be supporting their competition. Javilk also mentioned that Andreeson
setting NS source code free earlier this year makes even more sense if you
look at it this way: (Andreeson daydreaming here:) AOL is gonna buy us
(Netscape), right? AOL is in bed with MS...AOL won't continue to build our
browser, ISP's won't support their competitor, we better put it out in the
open source world or it'll never stand a chance.
> So... I'll still be active on WC, though likely a little less so
> than in the
> past. Also, I'll let you know in a couple of months when my new
> version of
> the Bank's site is in place.
Will be looking forward to it. Maybe you can stash a "before" copy somewhere
for the history books.
Jack
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