First steps here will be to beef up the web content and explain myself a little further. A couple of days rest before the work though :) And a new email sig is in order too ...

Finished my full-time job yesterday. Nothing tearful or anything, more excitement and relief than anything else. Sorry to go, but glad not to stay (if that makes sense.)

For some reason, I will share here to email that I sent to my work colleagues that imparts my future plans. Plans that will naturally form the centre of this site:

And so it's time ...

... to say goodbye.

That's right. As I'm sure you all know now, today (Thursday)
is my last day at Fairfax. I've probably spoken to most of you today or
recently anyway, but as you know I wasn't so happy to go at first, but
as I've got things in order I'm now happier and happier with what has
happened.

Leaving is giving me a real chance to make other things
happen tht I've been doing for a while anyway. I'm already writing several
articles for Empire movie magazine, I have several fiction projects
looking very promising (close to publishers and all that,) and plenty of
other things.

And yes, I may just move out of Sydney as well - Canberra or
nearby maybe. Or I may not :) Somewhere other than my current house
anyway...

Of course, if any large dinner goes ahead in September when
Hattie returns from her travels, I'd love to be involved in that.
Hope to see current and former smh people there. The email address at the
bottom is the place to get me.

Thanks to everyone who has helped me over the last two years especially Tom, Hattie, Mike G (all gone already, naturally!) - and Stephen H, Sean.... Carlos, Rob, Kim and Aysha for all those
entertaining evening shifts - and thanks everyone else as well!

You can always get me at my now and future email address steve@stephen-turner.net (always thought having your own domain looked good!)

Bye all, and hope everything at smh.com.au goes well.


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Thanks,

Stephen Turner.

Former SMH Web Producer.
steve@stephen-turner.net
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I will still visit:
SMH: http://www.smh.com.au/
Really :)

So I guess that totally gives away my former employers, but it also lauches me into the future right here. I know the audience on this won't be great yet, but as things happen to me, I know it will build up.

Finally saw the Buffy season finale tonight. Hell of a story told really well. Joss Whedon is an amazing writer.

We all know that Buffy is dead ... but that in the long term she will probably come back somehow. Does this diminish the story? I don't really think so.

This is afterall a world with heaven, hell, the undead, powers-that-be, demons and everything else, so a soul coming back *somehow* is not to unbelievable.

Of course, I can see a massive mega Buffy/Angel crossover next year to bring this altogether. But until then, I guess Buffy is gone :( "She saved the world, a lot."