So, 2012 is upon us, hey? After jotting down my thoughts on 2011, I really wanted to spend some time looking ahead to this new year. In fact, I’ve been downright excited to write this post. So then, it figures that I start having problems with the site that I have to address before I…
So Chris Guillebeau says that an annual review can be a great exercise to go through – take inventory of your past year’s successes and failures – so that’s what I’m doing here. Because I didn’t take meticulous notes over the past year, I decided to look through my tweets of the year (the last…
In my sophomore year of college, I was on a floor with about 4,000 guys who all played guitar (true story). My roommate played. At least every other room had one or more guys who played guitar. Any time you were walking down to the bathroom or heading to the showers, you heard at least…
I’ve talked a lot about television on this site, and for good reason: my first foray into building my own DVR/media server a few years ago is where I created the term “practical nerd” (hey! that’s the name of the site!). But I also do it because I realized I was in a scary cycle…
When my fiance and I got engaged, we knew that the wedding was going to be a giant undertaking. We both have very large families and very small pocketbooks. Fortunately, we were able to balance her desire for a big, elegant wedding and my desire to save a lot of money by going the DIY…
