Believe it or not…
Dave Baird |
Believe it or not I went to University. I learnt an awful lot of things, like…how to cook for myself. Well, mince is a very versatile substance. I learnt, very clearly and comprehensively, the licensing laws of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And I learnt that there’s a direct correlation between how often you change your bedding and how often you get laid. (About twice a year is the, retrospectively appalling, answer!)
Unfortunately, what I singularly failed to learn was anything even remotely useful about my chosen specialist subject; the media (excluding, for some bizarre reason, the ability to count in binary).
This was the late 90’s; the Acorns and BBC micro’s from school had morphed into PC’s and Macs.
I had a university email address and a dial up connection so fast I could open a whole message in just under 10 minutes! (Text only of course. You wouldn’t send an image unless you had a week spare to open it).
As part of my course we had a module on html and how to build our own web sites. This was timed perfectly for our generation to be right there, ready willing and able to take advantage of the first dot com boom! If only I hadn’t been so diligent in my study of the licensing laws! Simply being told that the pubs open at 12 Midday and close at 11 at night wasn’t thorough enough for me. I had to experience it firsthand. Day after day after day after day.
In the blink of an eye 3 years had gone and with them my chance to be a computer whizz kid. But ask me what time the pubs open and close in Bradford…and to be honest I couldn’t tell you; licensing laws have changed quite significantly since then.
Why do I tell you this? Because here, now, today I am attempting to build a new web site to advertise and market myself as a professional voiceover and writer. My efforts will be visible to all at www.thebaird.com over the coming months. It may go well, it may go ill. I could increase business a hundredfold, I could accidentally bring down the whole world wide web leaving mankind in a second dark age. Who knows?
One thing’s for sure, with me on the job, it’s gonna be no fun whatsoever finding out! Still, feel free to pop by whenever you fancy and I’ll let you know when there’s something new worth looking at. Wish me luck!