Following a laid-back stay at Put Things Off, I’ve rebranded, donned a black suit, sold the cat on eBay, and moved to a new home at Modern Nerd, where you’ll find my essays, updates, and meandering prose from now on.
Your subscription should redirect automatically if you followed the old RSS feed, but you might like to visit Modern Nerd and resubscribe anyway, especially if you’re the type who worries needlessly about things.
Q: Why Modern Nerd?
I felt it was time for a change, largely because the work I do has shifted from telling people to shut up and make things to shutting up and making them myself. It’s harder than it looks. Also, nerds are cool now.
Q: What about Put Things Off dot com?
The site will house the Web version of Put Things Off 2, the laid-back to-do list that I’m relaunching this year. Progress is good, thanks, and you should follow @spiffingapps on twitter for sneak peaks and updates.
Q: I really liked your old Put Things Off site design. Are you going to sell it as a WordPress theme, move to an Alpine ski chalet, descend into madness, and spend your nights quoting Sartre at passing mountain goats?
Yes. You’ll soon be able to buy the Put Things Off design as a WordPress theme from Wordprezzie. To find out when it’s available, follow @nickcernis on twitter or subscribe to the Wordprezzie feed.
Q: Did you really sell the cat on eBay?
Of course not! eBay is dead to me. I used Craigslist.
Q: What do you think of tumblr?
I’m pretty excited about it. It took me a day to learn their template system, design, code, and launch this site. Imagine what you could do if you were clever.
The writing workflow is great — you can queue posts and drip feed them to your audience automatically, without having to wrestle with publish dates or keep anything as laughable as a ‘blogging diary’.
Overall, I’ve fallen in love. Tumblr is a laid-back, low-pressure approach to publishing: there’s no software to maintain or update, no plugins to fiddle with, no hosting bills to pay, no security issues to worry about, and no guilty feeling when you post 10 words instead of 1,000. Plus, their logo has a full stop in it. That could catch on.
Talk nerdy to me
In Michael Okuda’s text commentary on the DVD edition of Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan, he claims the computer on Kirk’s apartment desk is a Commodore 64. It’s actually a Commodore PET.
Easy mistake to make.
