TravelBlog is 10 today. Now it's a globally recognised site, with around 300,000 accounts, millions of photos and blogs. The site is improving every single day and 2012 is going to be a great year for TravelBlog, the best yet! Behind the scenes it's been 10 years of work - I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of code, designed interfaces, updated many servers, employed staff and started companies. I've never posted this story in one place, the story of the last 10 years and how TravelBlog changed my life. So here it is. 10 years ago to the day, I was working in a large corporate office for a now infamous company in London, Lehman Brothers. Six months prior to that, I'd realised that something was wrong with my life. I was 25 years old,
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