What a crazy year. I kicked it off by moving out of the metro department, where I’d been a reporter and computer-assisted reporting specialist for more than six years, and onto the editorial web team. That meant a move out of the newsroom, down a long hallway, and into a different building. (Do click on that last link, as it’s so totally sweet.)

More recently, following this summer’s cutbacks, there’s been a lot of restructuring around the office, both managerially and physically. And there’s been quite a bit of strategery over what to do with all the awesomeness, most of which you haven’t seen, we’ve worked on under the banner of Backyard Post. (That’s also why I haven’t updated the Backyard Post blog since, oh dear, July.)

Hopefully I’ll be able to write more about the course for Backyard Post soon, but for now the news is that the gang has moved, both literally and organizationally, from the editorial side of The Post to the Internet Operations group. (The guy who used to be in charge of the department described it as a sort of newspaper Switzerland, neutral ground between the editorial and business operations. Much less so now, but that’s the idea, in a way.)

Not much day-to-day change on our part, but there is definitely a significant, positive philosphical change behind the move. More later, etc. More tangible is our cubicle pod up on the fourth floor, in a windowless area we plan to turn into a literal geek cave by killing the harsh overhead lighting.

Here’s the great north-facing view in the main part of our new department, the part where we do not work:

And here’s the west-facing view we do have:

Here’s the hallway leading to the geek cave. Is that not a bleak, straight-out-of-The Office shot, or what? And I mean the original, super-depressing, set-in-Slough British version.