I’m such a geek.

I just spent part of the afternoon playing with my son and listening to Wil Wheaton’s session at Gnomedex. I couldn’t get to Lake Tahoe, but I could still enjoy it streaming over the net courtesy of Doug Kaye’s IT Conversations onto my laptop, then beamed to my living room stereo using the FM modulator I use to listen to podcasts in my car.

I’ve been an off-again, on-again reader of Wil’s site for a couple years now. Wil - if you happen to read this - please turn on full content in your RSS feed. I read over 100 feeds regularly, but I can only do so by reading them offline. I miss a lot of your stuff because it’s not in your feed. There are ways to do it without the bandwidth killing your pocketbook.

Anyhow, I haven’t read either of Wil’s books yet, but after listening to the excerpts he read they’re definitely going to the top of my “gotta get” list. Wil had to be a teenager in front of the world, and writes about it engagingly, humourously, and in a way that somehow allows me to think about the embarrassment I felt at that time of life without feeling embarrassed.

[Update] Wil decided to go to full-feeds!