# Language and the Web

"Working the web since 1995, Derek Powazek is the creator of many award-winning websites, a couple of which still exist." (<a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/homepagegoals">source</a>)

Does this sort of construction grate on anyone else? I've been looking at it for a while, and I don't think it's actually grammatically wrong--the "working the web" modifier doesn't dangle--but the sentence flow is right off. The "modifier" doesn't <em>justify</em> what follows, for example, which would be the expected outcome of a sentence that starts like this ("Working the web since 1995, Derek Powazek is ; it stands pretty much alone, unmoored.