Anyone know of any good places to make a custom t-shirt or polo-shirt online? I’m thinking of making one with the Nice Nerd logo on the front to do some free advertising while I stroll around.

Here’s a quick update on what’s going on:

Nice Nerd

I’ve been working on a theme for the site, and since it won’t go live until late July or August I might just finish up my CMS and use it for it. I haven’t done much work on the CMS in a while, however.

New Computer

Lately my main workstation has really started to tick me off. It is slow. Plain and simple. I recently bought 2 gigs of RAM for the thing (got it the day after ordering it even though I chose cheap shipping - gotta love New Egg ), which helped quite a bit.

However, my video card is pretty much shot. It looks like it has been overheating a bit, and some of the capacitors are darn close to blowing. We’re gonna try replacing those to see if that helps.

Personally I’m not too picky about computers. My future-new one doesn’t need to be a quad core beast, it just needs to run my programming crap fairly well. I’ll probably end up saving around $600 and getting one of those cpu/monitor/printer package deals from some place like Best Buy.

Update: Replacing the capacitors worked, the video card is working perfectly now. I just need to get a fan to help with the overheating issue… hmm.

Late last night, around 11pm to be exact, I discovered a surprising domain was available - nicenerd.com. I did a bit of research, and decided to pick it up. Needless to say, I was a bit ecstatic - who woulda thought something like nicenerd.com would be available?

Anyway, I am telling you this to say Nice Nerd will be my main focus for now on. There’s just so many things I could do with it - including having a bit of fun. I mean seriously - nicenerd.com is one of those catchy domain names that rarely comes along.

Say goodbye to nusuni.com, and say hello to nicenerd.com. It will take me a few weeks to get it all ready to launch - please stay tuned.

Oh, and I already made a little mascot for it. I call him Nerdy McNerd. Just kidding, he doesn’t have a name yet.

Isn’t he cute?

Howdy loyal readers,

As you may know, over the last few months this blog has fallen into a minor recession, similar to the one the U.S. economy is currently experiencing. I got a part time job nearly a month ago, so my time to work on my projects and sites has been limited. In addition, I have said “to hell with Apple” and switched over to Ubuntu as my main OS. It took a good 3 days to get my main requirements met, and as I type this I am still moving over my files. Hopefully in a few months I will be able to afford a nice new desktop to run Ubuntu much better than my current less-than-satisfactory 3 year old crap box.

Anyway, I am just writing this to let you know I will continue blogging, but it may no longer be on *this* site. I own a domain I use for my personal e-mail, and it is quite catchy. I am thinking about moving over every bit of content from this blog to that one, and jumping back into the blogging game. Yes, this is quite a shift of opinion from my previous posts. I’ve thought about it, and it doesn’t really take much time to write basic 3-4 paragraph posts.

Unfortunately my nice new CMS won’t be completed for quite some time (I haven’t touched the code since I got my non-freelancing job). So for now it looks as if I’ll be using WordPress for a while longer. Oh, and that software company I am thinking of starting is still on the radar. I won’t start it for many months though, as I’ll need to save a few g’s before I even attempt to do that; and at this point in time I think getting a better computer is more of a priority.

The switch over to the new domain will begin as soon as I can find a good chunk of time. Hmm, I have tomorrow off… perhaps I will start designing a new look and prepare the server…

Change is coming, and it looks good.

Thanks for your continued support,
Jeremy Steele

P.S. With everything going on now I don’t think I will be able to make it to Izeafest. Sorry.

Just in case you’re not aware, I’ve been working on trying to figure out a decent software company name. Well, I think I’ve found it. It’s a secret for now, but I’ll be registering the domains for it pretty soon, and hopefully by September/October I can (maybe) start up a little LLC for it and start development of a few ideas I have. The first order of business will be to distribute my still-under-construction PHP CMS under the company (yes it is taking a while, but it is a beast).

I have a few other little regular applications I am working on as well.

In addition, I am still debating what to do about this blog. I’m thinking of closing off this one and starting fresh with something that says “I am jeremy and hear me… *nerd* roar…” . However, that may not happen. Whether or not I continue blogging is a complete mystery to even myself. It is fun and all, but I suspect my time and skills can be put to better use elsewhere, such as at a software company.

This could very well be one of the last blog posts I ever do.