After four years at Newsnight this is my final editor's blog. I'm off to Google, which has provoked some head scratching in the blogosphere.

My reasoning was pretty straightforward - I was looking for something at least as interesting, eventful and as much fun as Newsnight. That leaves a short list of options.

Experimenting with new media has been one of the joys of running Newsnight. There have been new products and possibilities almost every week. We've piled into many of them although so far, unlike Downing Street, we've resisted Twitter.

Some of our wheezes proved controversial but four years on I don't think anyone - and certainly not Jeremy - would argue that Newsnight should be simply a TV programme shown once at 10.30pm.

The digital revolution means I've been the first Newsnight editor to look after a programme which can be accessed at any time of the day or night anywhere in the world. You can engage us in conversation and we can - and should - explain our inner thinking.

So I'd like to take this chance to thank publicly the brilliant, creative and committed team who put together Newsnight five nights a week. To thank the six million or so viewers who stick with Newsnight week in week out despite the proliferation of competing demands for their eyeballs.

And to say thanks and farewell to those diehard Newsnight fans who subscribe to the e-mail, read blogs like this one and visit the website every day to catch up on the programme and have fun picking holes in it.

From Friday I'll be joining your number.

I'd feel a bit of a fraud as I only worked with him very briefly on Newsnight as a junior producer in the '90s - a mildly terrifying experience it was.

Instead, by way of tribute, we've asked Newsnight's film librarian Adam Gotch, who lived and breathed the Wheeler years, to pull out of the archive every single piece by Charles he can find.

So here - simply because we can - we present the complete Charles Wheeler, in his own words. Click here.

PS: I should say - if you'd like to look at the old blog, for old times sake (including poring over the 1,700 or so arguments between believers, non-believers, agnostics and the plain contrary under our most successful entry, The God Delusion) it's all been archived here for your nostalgic pleasure.

Both have been quoted this week as saying things they didn't intend to say.

On Newsnight last night, Mr Osborne - speaking from a noisy Mansion house - appeared to say that a Conservative government would be willing to reopen negotiations on public sector pay. We thought that was a significant developoment, but as we reported his comments a Conserative spokesman rang us to say that if he did say that - and if you watch the clip here he clearly did - he didn't mean to.

Less serious perhaps than Michelle Obama's apparent gaffe when she seemed to say that her husband Barack was pathetic. Pathetic not being a great attribute in a presidential candidate, it was quickly pointed out that what she actually said was "I did not want Barack to go into politics because I thought politics was a mean business. And you know, I knew this man that I loved, he was sweet, empathetic."

Glad we got that straight.