The Geek Life Notblog

So there have been a few updates to the site.
I’ve finally updated the wordpress installation, so those of you reading this via RSS feeds will no longer see those pesky Viagra ads all over the place. I’ve also added quick links to the top of the blog portion so that you can navigate the site a little better.

Honestly. What is the point of these Viagra and Russian Porn ads that litter every unsecured blog and forum on the net. It’s not like 15,000 links to “Russianbrides.com” will increase traffic much, and it’s been about 15,000 years (give or take the standard deviation) since link spamming has worked on any but the most retarded of search engines. All it does is stand to ruin any sort of real work we’re doing on these pages. It’s like the graffiti of the internet… minus the cool lettering and creative use of spray paint.

I will be working diligently over the next month to create some drastic and much needed incremental improvements on this site. So stay tuned, loyal followers, and thanks for stopping by.

Tim here. The second episode, The Vidya, is up and running and it’s December already. Crikey. We recorded that l’il number way, way back. Right after Halloween. So listening to it is interesting for a number of reasons:

1.) I sound like I’m underwater. Matt and Jess sound lovely. I thought a universal Bluetooth earpiece would be good enough for recording but evidently not. I pledge to emerge from the murky depths to get something better. Any suggestions?

B.) Although we sound aimless we do cover a breadth of games and issues (The best Final Fantasy, Fallout 3, DRM, Mega Man 9’s difficulty) that would interest the video gaming set out there. We don’t dissect anything in detail but we hope to cover a wide set of topics (totems, I call them: TV, film, video games) before we get down and dirty and talk explicitly about, I dunno, say, the strengths and weaknesses of Sega Saturn for 45 minutes. Well, maybe just weaknesses in that case.

&.) The podcast is a little time capsule. The only game we talk about that isn’t out yet is Prince of Persia (out this week). Everything else – Gears of War 2, Mirror’s Edge, CoD5 – has been out for a while and will hopefully be covered in detail in future recordings. Matt and I have been playing Gears 2 online but the man won’t play the campaign on his own. He better catch up fast, I’m not so sure I’ll be wary of spoilers for long!

3.) I didn’t crap out of the podcast at the end. I purposely left to make myself a tomato cheese melt. It was delicious.