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I’ve built up a steady stream of lurkers over the past three-plus years as a blogger, and the site has had some definite peaks and valleys with a year-long blackout somewhere in the middle. So you might be wondering why the majority of posts lately have only been Twitter updates. Here’s why.

The birth of my children have had an obvious impact on my life, aside from the whole “responsible adult” thing. As a lifelong geek of technology, videogames, comics and movies, my first reaction was that I would have to give up those things and shelter my children from them, because society says those are not what makes an adult responsible. But then in 2007 on a warm late-summer day along the New Jersey shore boardwalk, I was inspired by a t-shirt which made me think I didn’t have to abandon those things at all, but celebrate them with my children and find a way where they could enhance and even benefit our daily lives.

Thus, My Dad Is A Geek! was born.

Since then, I’ve been preoccupied by my fulltime career and birth of my son, but the idea of MDIAG! was one that would just not leave me. Now that my kids, ages 2 and 1, are getting to an age where “freetime” is slowly sneaking back as a word in my vocabulary, I’ve decided to plunge headfirst into this project and grow it into the dream I’ve had in my head for the past 18 months.

Over the past two weeks I’ve posted more than 50 news stories, a couple of original articles, and am coming off the tail end of New York Comic Con coverage. Whew! And I hope to keep thinks rolling full steam ahead in the coming weeks and months (and hopefully years!). So you’ll see an obvious drop-off of posts here, aside from my daily Twitter digests, at least for a while. Most encouraging is, for the first time, my daily visits at MDIAG! have eclipsed my traffic here, so I gotta go with what the stats tell me. The readers have spoken!

In the meantime, you can always follow me on Twitter, and please check out MDIAG! (did I mention we need some help?).

Thanks,

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