Transition

I gave my current company about 1.25 to 1.5 years notice and the 1.5 years is up next week. The notice was that long since the reason I'm leaving is that my wife and I are immigrating to New Zealand. The process took that long. It could have taken less, but there were some complications having to do with my health records, and anyway, I enjoy my job enough that I've been dragging out the immigration process as long as possible.

The 13th month pay was a factor too, and my commitment to work through to the end of the year.

As it happens, I'm leaving on 21Dec, but nothing gets done after that anyway, till the end of the year :-).

I've been documenting into an internal wiki. There's not enough documentation yet, I figure I'm going to have to continue writing documentation for free for about 2 more months (but at a more leisurely pace). I'll do that if I retain my vpn access. I won't though if they revoke the VPN access (hard to write on a wiki if you're not online to the wiki itself).

Today I stopped my fetchmail job running on my desktop. My desktop at work has postfix and courier-imap running on it. And I had fetchmail downloading my email from gmail and pushing it to local postfix so I could grab it from my laptop. That won't be around for me anymore after the 21st though, so it's time to switch to downloading email from gmail directly. Or, more likely, installing courier-imap on my laptop so that I don't have to have evolution up and running all the time (and I can be more flexible, using procmail for some things, for instance).

One of the reasons I had that courier-imap setup at work was so that I'd have *three* copies of my email. One on gmail, one on my laptop, and I had a .forward to another local account on my work computer for backup. I don't think I'll have that .forward on my laptop though. My email is in multiple gigabytes now and I don't think I actually need *3* copies :-). Although, come to think on it, I actually had *4* copies and now I'll have 3, since I also regularly backup my email (among other things) to an external USB hard drive, and I have *versions*, since I use rdiff-backup :-).

I'm going to have to work with the sysad team too, so that all the cron jobs that I have running on one or another of the servers at work (including some on my desktop) are migrated to the official servers.