As many of you may already know, I do a podcast called Bomb Shelter Radio for my webcomic collective. It’s a good bit of work to find a compromising time to record with my co-host, come up with topics for the show, edit it, upload it, and write the show notes for each weekly show. I enjoy it a lot, but it’s a pain in the butt sometimes.

At any rate, I must be a masochist because I just started up another podcast for Way of the Geek. As some of you know I used to use my LiveJournal for something called the Week in Geek, that moved to Way of the Geek when it started. When I stopped doing it I was sad, but now it’s back as a podcast. We don’t give as many links as I used to, and it’s mostly about stuff we’ve covered on the site already, but it’s a lot of fun and pretty informative.

I’ve even managed to score an interview with Chris Baty, the guy who founded NaNoWriMo. I’ll be talking to him tomorrow night and I’ll hopefully have the audio from that added into next weeks podcast. Our little website has grown up so fast *sniffles*

Anyway, if podcasts are your thing, then I think you might like both of the ones I do. If not, no hard feelings, everyone has to have a hobby right?

This makes me happy 300 came out on DVD today. For those of you who haven’t seen it or read the book, I highly suggest you do both. It’s a good read/watch, as long as you’re not one of those people who gets their panties in a twist when something isn’t historically accurate, those people piss me off. Just shut up and enjoy the movie for what it is…A MOVIE!

Anyway, with the debut of 300 on DVD, that means that the WotG giveaway is over too. I’ve already contacted each person that won and they were all pretty psyched about winning. I guess that means that we did something right?

I even got thanked for putting the site together by a couple of people. They said that we’ve got things on WotG that they can’t really find anywhere else. I guess that makes sense, it’s not everyday you find a site that will give you a review of a game from your childhood, a review/recommendation on a newer game for under $20, the rundown on a linux distribution you should be interested in, let you know what’s coming up in comic shops for the next week, and still be able to give you news on technology, gadgets, and the latest stuff to waste your time on the Internet. So, if you think about it, we really are your one stop geek shop. That makes me feel good, we’ve achieved what we set out to do and now we’re gonna surpass it by adding more features and content to the site. Hooray for geekery!

I got InnerGeek incorporated into the rest of the WotG theme finally. I also built a better way for people to submit entries for the 300 Birthday Giveaway. All you’ve gotta do is go here, drop your email address, confirm it, and we’ll handle the rest.

Way of the Geek is turning a whole whopping year old on July 31st. Oddly enough, that’s the same day that 300 comes out on DVD, which I only found out about today. So, in honor of both events WotG is holding a birthday bash giveaway contest with a chance at winning some pretty decent free stuff. You gotta go to the link to find out how to enter though.

I’d enter, but sadly I’m part of Way of the Geek, so that’s no dice. Ah well, at least one of you fine folks have a chance to take home some loot. Maybe I’ll try my luck on some other site’s giveaway…sooner or later…maybe.

I’d been talking the idea of giving each author on Way of the Geek their own blog over with Mike for sometime, but never fully expected it to get very far. I wasn’t even sure it was a good idea.

Then, a couple of days ago, I got an email from Shawn M. with a few ideas on how to improve WotG. One of his suggestions was contributor blogs…less than a week later here they are, ready for the world to see. Not everyone has updated theirs yet, so I’m holding off on making the official announcement. So far, though, I gotta say, I’m pretty impressed.

I’ve dropped a ton of shared themes on to the setup, and I’ve even set up an LJ cross-posting plugin for those of us who have LiveJournals as well. The LJ plugin even lets you control your privacy settings, allowing comments, and all that good stuff. Very impressive, and my hat goes off to the people who coded it.

Anyway, in case you missed it, WotG got a face lift the other day as well. The new style is still in the beta stage, but it’s a HUGE improvement over what it had been, so I’m fairly happy with it. Also, Shawn M. has been doing an awesome job of working on InnerGeek he seems to be better at geek humor than I am, but I’m trying to catch up. All in all, things seem to be coming together a little better now.