Living With a Nerd

Good afternoon, everyone!  While our average number of daily visitors has been slowly rising, we are nearing 100 RSS feed subscribers!  Help us reach our first century milestone by subscribing to our RSS feed (grab the link from the top or the side of this page), and also by telling your friends about us.  Thanks for making this all worthwhile…we run this site with zero paid advertising or endorsements on it as a way to give back to the culture that has provided us with so much.

Also, please remember that if you have a topic you would like to rant about, submit it to us by emailing it to pojut@livingwithanerd.com.  Try to keep it between 400-1000 words, and make sure it fits into one of the catagories at the top of this page.  Your rant could be our next Wednesday Rant!

Lastly, if you create your own music, please let us know by shooting us an email about it.  If we like it, we’ll feature you in our new weekly entry that is slated to start tomorrow, called The Weekend Album.  Nothing like some free publicity, eh?

My apologies for the lack of actual articles lately…I know I’ve been mostly linking to other websites for the past couple of weeks, and I felt like I should explain myself.  Sands of Destruction and Puzzle Quest 2 have been occupying a lot of my time.  Time that I haven’t spent playing DS has been spent putting effort into music.  The track I’m currently working on, Running While Sitting, is almost complete…just a couple of small placement tweaks, and then I’m ready to start doing the final mastering.  I’m super excited about it…definitely good stuff

I’ve got a ton of articles and reviews prepped for writing…movie reviews, a few retrospectives, video game reviews, a couple of hardware reviews, as well as some general nerd culture stuff.  I just need to sit down and write them.  We are also still working out the logistics for our podcast, which will be presented by Brittnie.  We’ve got the topics worked out, we just need to get the style and hardware nailed down.  Also, keep an eye out for a new catagory of articles covering music, including reviews of albums, artists, music in video games, and more.

Thanks for being patient through this boring phase.  Good things are coming, I promise!

Check that out!  The past 7 months have shown explosive growth in our traffic numbers…it looks like we just might break past the 50,000 mark for the year.  Next goal is to increase the number of page loads per visitor.  Help us make this happen…tell your friends to visit Living With a Nerd!  Thanks for making our little corner of the web just a bit bigger

Good afternoon, everyone!  We just upgraded to WordPress 3.0, and it looks like our page navigation plugin (the one responsible for allowing you to jump between different pages) got borked in the process.  For now, you can scroll through each page in order, but you won’t be able to jump pages for the time being.  We’re working on finding another plugin (or getting a timeline on when the used-to-be-current plugin will be updated), but until then, page navigation is going to be slow and tedious.

If you notice any other weird issues going on, please let us know!

Hey everyone, the site redesign is in progress. Over the next couple of days, you may see some irregularities and weirdness going on. Because this new theme can accommodate wider pictures, older articles will have a lot of blank whitespace due to picture size…new articles won’t suffer from this problem, though. Please leave a comment on this post or email pojut@livingwithanerd.com to inform us of anything odd that you encounter. Thanks for your patience, everyone!

Ever since we moved over to WordPress publishing software, we have been using the pixel theme.  It has served us very well, but I’ve grown tired of the dark style, and while pixel looks great in its default configuration, it is a bit difficult to get it looking exactly how I want it.  Sometime in the next week or so, we will likely be changing over to a lighter, slightly more minimalist design here at Living With a Nerd.  I’m not exactly sure what we will be going with quite yet, but I hope it will make things look cleaner.   Stay tuned!

This week is going to be extremely light on content, possibly devoid of any.  Between insanity going on at work, planning for our wedding, my Mom being in town (hi Mom!), and still trying to get our apartment in order, I have pretty much no time for writing.  A shame, as I’ve got quite a bit to write about!  If nothing else, I’ll try to get a blog post up at some point later this week. 

I’m really sorry about this, I know that this website has been a real roller coaster for the past month or two.  Thank you all so very much for being patient…we still care about all of you!  Sign up for our RSS feed so you can be kept up to date on when we are finally able to post some new stuff -_-;;

We are still extremely busy moving in to our new place, so for the next week or so new articles will be sparse.  We intend to get most of the remaining move completed this weekend, so by next week things should hopefully return to normal.  Thanks for your patience!