So, it’s a shade unders six months since someone first asked me “how would you feel about coming to work in the US?”, and after a lot of to-and-froing, and a fair amount of organisational meanderings, I’m now a few days away from boarding a flight to San Francisco – the only one-way long-haul flight I’ve ever held tickets for.

Let me take a moment to say “uhhh… wow.”

This really came out of left-field, whichever way you look at it.

Six years ago, I was studying for a degree in English Literature.

Five years ago, I was working on a cottage-industry startup website.

Three years ago, I was running my own (albeit cottage-industry scale) website company.

And a year ago, I started work for a large multinational web company in London.

It’s been a strange roller-coaster so far, particularly as I entered the whole web industry thang about a year before everything done went boom and most of us were left riding out the storm clinging to small pieces of e-Wreckage.