Marcus's Musings

I thought I should mention that I resigned from my post as Sitepoint Forums Mentor last week, and my resignation became effective on Sunday, so I'm just a pleb again (although I'm still the community "ASP Guru" until this year's election takes place)!

As you can tell from the infrequent postings on this blog, I haven't had much free time recently, and posting at SitePoint has consumed rather a lot of my free time over the last two and a half years (although I've been a mentor for only one year, I've always been a frequent poster), so I felt it was time to be a little more selfish!

I've got regular Italian classes on Mondays and Salsa on Wednesdays, and I'm usually busy with friends / going out most other evenings, so I'm trying to make the most of my free time by spending as little of it as possible in front of a computer - I do that all day at work as it is! (However, I will try to post on this blog more often in future...)

Anyway, it's been very satisfying helping others with their development problems over the years, and I think I'd quite enjoy being a teacher in later life, but I feel that I've done my bit for the SitePoint community. I'm not saying "goodbye" - I'll still pop in from time to time to answer a posts that take my fancy - but I won't be spending much time around there any more, so I'll see you when I see you.

Finally, thanks to all those of you who said such nice things about me in the thread in the Mentor's forum - it means a lot to know that my hard work has been appreciated and that I've made a difference to people's projects & careers.