And so it begins...

It's August 2006; I've been working in the web/multimedia industry for some five years; it's some 7 years since I began my Interactive Multimedia degree at Staffordshire University; I began making websites in my spare time some -- God I can't even remember -- maybe 8 or 9 years ago?! How then... by what strange set of circumstances... why... have I only just got myself a blog? Jesus, last I heard, even my nan has a blog and she's still trying to find the starting handle on her Betamax VCR!

In reality, I guess it’s probably not so unusual for someone in a trade not to go about engaging in said trade’s niceties outside of work. Do mechanics wake up early on their weekends off to get into the garage to strip down Ford Mondeos, just for fun? Would a master baker spend his Sunday afternoons baking fresh bread as a relaxing pastime?

Maybe. Maybe not.

Suffice it to say, the following points are all true, despite my web-oriented profession:

1. I’ve never had a blog
2. I don’t know how to use Skype
3. I have no idea what version of MSN Messenger I have on my machine, or if it’s even still called MSN Messenger
4. I don’t know how to do MMS on my phone
5. I have no real ambition to fulfil or ‘fix’ any of the above except, obviously, #1.

Truth be told, my real reasons for starting this blog are twofold: First, I have a lot of opinions about a lot of ‘stuff’; I think about ‘stuff’ a lot, so I thought putting it all ‘out there’ via the gift of blog seemed like a good idea. It's probably not, but it seemed like one at some point in ther recent past. Second, were I not engaged in my current profession, I’d probably like to be a journalist; ergo, I like writing stuff; ergo, a blog is a good place to start. Should my boss be reading this... that doesn't mean I'm intending to up sticks to go and work for "Hello" magazine!

So, here it is: my blog. Hopefully I’ll actually have the presence of mind to bother to keep it updated and will have something worthwhile to say.

“Unlike the load of old toss above” I hear you say ;)