It's been fairly slow on this site for a while and I haven't really been able to respond to everything I should be responding to. Let me tell you something about the reason for that!

I guess I just can't stop moving countries. Besides my homecountry the Netherlands I've lived in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Stockholm, Sweden, London, United Kingdom. Next up is Sunnyvale, California. And... Barack Obama has just won the USA elections so... hello America!!! 6 days from now I will be moving the United Kingdom after well over 1.5 years of having an awesome time for yet another exciting destination: California. For some reason life just doesn't allow me to stay in the same country for a very long time and guess what? I'm loving it! I suppose my 'globetrotter lifestyle' has it's pros and cons but at least I won't have to have regretful thoughts about my life having been boring when I'm old. The USA will be the fourth foreign destination I'll be calling home in less than a week and I'm pretty damn excited about it. After having had a great time working for Yahoo! Europe in London, the Yahoo! mothership in Sunnyvale California was calling and I couldn't ignore its voice. I've done great things in London. I worked on all EU Yahoo! homepages, both the current ones as well as the brand new 'Metro' project which is currently in what we call 'bucket testing'. While it's been great working on the largest internet portal in the world I felt it was once again time for a change and time to broaden my experience in huge scale internet productions.

I'm extremely excited about joining Yahoo!'s i18n Tigers team based at the Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale California where I'll be working on internationalizing and localizing Yahoo! properties in order to make them work for the non-English speaking world. Exciting aspects of this new job are continuously changing projects, gaining experience with internationalization and localization and working with an even larger amount of amazing people than I've worked with so far in London. Don't be fooled by the stuff you read on sites such as Valleyway, there are still truckloads of amazingly talented people working for Yahoo! and I'm still as proud to be part of it as I was when I got hired in April 2007. I'm also looking forward to working more closely with the YUI team to include my YUI AccordionView widget in the official YUI distribution and to contribute more to the brand new YUI 3 with which I've already worked extensively in the past 6 months.

It's gonna be a blast, I have no doubt. It does however mean things will remain a bit slow on this site for a few more weeks. Please bear with me while I once again make a transatlantic move! Stay tuned. I'll be back soon!

To all my dear friends in the London and Munich Yahoo! offices: I'll miss you all dearly. Hang on in there and... stay in touch!!!