A Piece of Creative Cake

Crikey - Blogger has come a long way since last time I used it. But then, four or five years is a long time. I remember having to install complicated, clunky plug-ins just to upload photos. Not now - pics - vids... It's all free and it's a piece of cake. Yummy cake. Pimped my homepage too.

You'd probably need to be an old git to really appreciate just how miraculous and liberating the rapid evolution of all this creative technology is. Get a computer and a few peripherals: make a hit record [Bedingfield, 2001], get into social networking: promote yourself to superstardom [Arctic Monkeys, 2005], get a video camera: shoot a movie for national distribution ["Colin", 2009]. No more prohibitive production costs, esoteric knowledge, elite circles and exclusive clubs. Now we are all the masters - and we're calling the shots - in pro-quality high definition. Viva la digital revolution!

So - I should probably get a little personal webspace to indulge myself, doused in my own digital daubings. A public platform for my tragically unrecognised creative genius; an exercise in desperate vanity or the inevitable middle-aged stab at immortality. Easy. And cheap.

What's more, I'm changing my broadband provider (back) to Virgin just as soon as I'm released from Sky.con. While Sky can offer endless, lacklustre TV channels, Virgin has a reliable Internet connection, fast surfing and Deals. For example, a little extra sweetener is Virgin's 200Mb of free webspace thrown in. OK, 200Mb isn't a lot for a phat media fan - true - but there are loads of YouTubes and Photobuckets out there, all free and just waiting to get plumbed into yer site. Just because it's fun. And cheap. And easy as... scrawling off a Blog.