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Since We Last Saw Our Hero…

... a great deal has happened.

First things first - the apparent eighteen month gap below is at least partially covered by my temporary settling at Suddenly San Franciscan (which should also tell you where I physically was  a chunk of that time).  I moved blogging activity over there because I wanted to create a specific narrative of my thoughts, views and activities as a transplanted Brit in the City By The Bay.  To some degree it worked, but for reasons I won't go into here, as I went into them there, it wasn't as successful a move as we'd hoped.  I'll keep that site up for the foreseeable, just as a record.

So now I'm back, and have been for a few months.  I didn't restart blogging until now because I had this slightly mental idea of taking a break - time off work, quiet time with The Mrs, a removal from pressures including even those I applied to myself to write stuff online.  The reason this was slightly mental is that I should have known better.  I've been kept busy with various things, this period coincided with The Mrs being on a deadline for a book, and any number of other things have meant that not only am I not feeling especially chilled after a decent interval off, but I'm now feeling new stress because I need to find a job.

Fortunately at least on that last front there are some irons in the fire which I'll pull out to talk about when the time is right.

In the meantime, hello again world.  For anyone new to me blogging (hello Twitterpeeps); a quick summary before we resume regular stuff:

44 years old, London-based, married with cat, previous form in corporate management, radio and TV production and for the last twelve years or so, all digital, all the time.  Been leading teams in digital businesses, developing online communication strategies and generally trying to be as good at it all as possible.

Blogging on and off (mostly on) since April 2001, with what I laughingly like to think is an eclectic subject range that certainly takes in digital stuff, comics, film (I used to do film and TV reporting professionally), books, etc as well as regular diversions into politics and current affairs.  Also whatever else I find briefly of interest.

When I set up the San Francisco blog I set down some ground rules for the stuff I wanted to talk about, etc.  This time I'm going to let things evolve as they go and see what kind of flavour this place ends up with.  I've done a quick tidy of the blogroll to trim out anyone who appears to have stopped for good, but haven't yet got round to adding in new people, which I will over the next few days.  I also need to give the template a complete overhaul and add in some new widgets - possibly a job for the weekend.

Anyway - that's what you missed last time on Glee.