He’s right. I’m not a real geek. I just play one on the Internet. Damn, I hate it when I get found out. 😉

But, a real geek just finds solutions to problems, no? And at the lowest-cost and fastest way possible, no? At least that’s what Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, told me. His Apple II motherboard was designed to be manufactured the cheapest and easiest way possible. It was so well designed that housewives in Silicon Valley could build them without any errors (seriously, it was that good). Or, if you watch this video of Alex Gounares, Bill Gates’ technical assistant (that’s a real geek to you Cody) you’ll see that he uses stacks of paper to raise his monitors to a proper height instead of doing it a more elegant, albeit more expensive, way.

I used to load up my own servers and prove that I was geekier than the rest of the world. I beta tested OS 7 and NT 3.5 before they were out (seriously, ask my ex-boss at San Jose State, I regularly frustrated people when I loaded their machines up with betas of the latest stuff — in fact, that’s how I got the name “Scobleizer” cause I “Scobleized” machines, both there, and later at Fawcette Technical Publications where I helped out on a computer programming magazine). Then, as I got older and wiser, I gave up and learned how to scale my life. And, that means letting other people host my wikis and weblogs. Matt Mullenweg, for instance, is freaking awesome at hosting my blog. It doesn’t go down. He doesn’t charge me any money. And every few weeks a new feature shows up without me asking for it.

Translation: I don’t need to know how to host my own WordPress server. I just need to be able to find people who do.

Oh, and Cody, go look at this photo over on Channel 9. Hint: you’re the guy in the blue shirt. Heheh.

Update: I forgot what could have been my best answer — if I wanted help setting up a Wiki I could just call the guy who invented them. Ward Cunningham. Here’s an interview I did with Ward back when we both worked at Microsoft.