I am sorry for the absences.  There was a death in my family.  In the midst of grieving and traveling and spending time with my family, I couldn’t manage blog posts.  I hope you all (all four of my readers) can forgive me.  I’ll be playing catch up with week with the Geek-Out Moments and will try to get some regular posts out.  Next week will be all back to normal.

Posting on Prodigeek this week will be erratic due to a family matter I must deal with.  Geek-Out Moments will be made up and given chronological dates to maintain organization (I’m not trying to cheat you all).  The 7, Geek Chic, and Geek-Out Game will all return next week.  I thank you for your readership and patience

Today, Prodigeek is excited to announce the mobile version of our fine website.  Users of PDAs, cellphones, or PSPs can simply plug in one of our many domains, like prodigeek.com, and you will automatically be redirected to the mobile verison - a bare bones but endearing site.  Since I only have one phone (Verizon XV6800) with Internet Explorer Mobile and a PSP, there might be issues.  Please email mobile@prodigeek.com or comment on this post if you find any bugs.  Please enjoy…

Sorry for the past three days of down time.  My host has been in the process of upgrading many features, quadrupling my disc space, for instance, but it’s not worth the space if I can’t have a website live.  Hopefully things will improve.  I have back-dated the past days worth of Geek-Moments for you to enjoy (and keep the calendar organized).  Geek Chic will be published on Tuesday (two in one week, yay).

Have a great weekend.

Michael Sherrin

What a year - my first year after college, no summer break, two jobs, and way too many video games. I started Prodigeek over a year ago as a way to explore geek culture and suck up to potential graduate schools, but it has since grown into a bit of an obsession and has challenged me as a writer and developer. I, Michael Sherrin, run Prodigeek all by my lonesome with tons of help from everyone I can get to listen. Prodigeek only turned into a daily blog in September and has steadily grown in readers - readers I want to thank for putting up with my learning what and how to write and all my bad jokes.

To celebrate the New Year, I have redesigned Prodigeek with more features, cleaner navigation, and hopefully a more enjoyable experience. There’s an full Archives page and a Best of Prodigeek. You can also view my recommended reading list on the right sidebar or at my Google Shared items page.

I have lots of exciting plans for 2008, starting with a year-long feature - the 365 Geek-Out Moments. Every day, I will post a short blurb about a memorable and influential moment in geek history (including weekends).

Please leave any feedback, suggestions, or requests here or if you prefer, you can email me at prodigeek@mikecs.net or use my contact page.

I hope everyone has a great New Year and please keep reading Prodigeek through the New Year.

Sincerely,
Michael C. Sherrin

After our New Year’s crisis (delayed Y2K I’m certain), Prodigeek is back in business. All our content is restored and everything, knock on wood, seems to be running smoothly. Thank you for your patience and I apologize for any inconvenience. I will be announcing some exciting new updates to the site shortly…

I hope everyone is having a great holiday - there’s certainly enough video games to give as gifts this holiday season; there’s something for everyone. Enjoy your families (and gifts) this holiday instead of wasting time reading my blog (since I’m not updating it). I’ll see you all again on Wednesday.

Happy holidays

After a long hiatus, I’m back and posting. I apologize for my long delay; I recently graduated from college and have entered the working world (you didn’t think I did this for a living, did you?). I am a web producer for a web start-up, Blue Egg, providing information and resources on green and sustainable living. Being only a few months old, I’m putting in the majority of my time as start-up life is a demanding mistress. My posts will be more intermittent, though I’ll try to post at least once a week now that things are starting to plateau. Thank you and I hope you keep reading.

Michael C. Sherrin