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New Web Host

Christopher Finke — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:07:47 +0000

If you’re reading this, then this site is up and running on a new host (WebFaction – no complaints yet). I think I got everything migrated over properly, but if you happen to notice anything broken or buggy, please let me know.

Here’s What You Should Think

Christopher Finke — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:57:30 +0000

I’ve imported all of the posts from my first blog (“Here’s What You Should Think”), which I started and ended in 2004. Most of them are related to Toby, a webmail client I wrote in college, and anyInventory, an open-source inventory system I was developing around the same time.

Toby is no longer supported. I recommend using RoundCube Webmail instead.

Owning my name

Christopher Finke — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:31:34 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I was shopping for a domain name for a little project I’m working on (more on that at a later date), and I noticed that chrisfinke.com was not registered. Long story short, it is now.

Ambition

Christopher Finke — Thu, 17 May 2007 23:27:45 +0000

I’ve decided that my current goal in life is to someday be cool enough to have a guest blogger on my site. That’s when you know that you’ve “made it.”

If you’d like to be my guest blogger, send my a few examples of posts you’d write. Ideally, they should be about me and either be praising my good qualities or downplaying my bad ones. Please also include a $5 registration fee.

By the way, I’m in Orlando this week at a ~~codejam~~ ~~techcrunch~~ scape-con^?. Soon, my MacBook will have singed off all of the hair between the top of my knees and the bottom of my shorts.

Glowing recommendation

Christopher Finke — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:20:40 +0000

Just found some new content for my About Me page, courtesy of Victor Agreda, Jr.:

“The template on his blog kicks Safari in the nuts, runs like a coward, and leaves it writhing in pain without help.”

(For the record, I gave my blog template a stern talking-to, and it has promised to stop doing this.)

Feedback

Christopher Finke — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:43:35 +0000

I’m kind of bored, so I’m pulling out the old standby that is almost guaranteed to provide some moderately interesting comments – a reader survey! The latest check I did of feed subscribers numbered in the low triple-digits, and I’m curious about what kind of people are reading what I write. So I submit these three questions for your consideration:

1. How did you initially find my site?
2. What would you like to see more/less of here?
3. Do you have a blog (and where is it)?

I’ve turned off the requirement of filling in your name and e-mail for this post, so giving some feedback should be as easy as ever.

Greencode WordPress Theme Update (0.4)

Christopher Finke — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:44:04 +0000

I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.4. Since version 0.3, I’ve added a a custom view for the Nintendo Wii (screenshot below), refined the tag cloud, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs.

You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.

Optimizing Your Website for the Wii

Christopher Finke — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:30:53 +0000

I’ve optimized my blog (and thus my Greencode WordPress theme) for browsing on the Nintendo Wii. So if you read my blog on the Wii, it will look like this:

It was pretty easy, and you can do it too, by following these two simple steps:

1. Create a Wii-friendly stylesheet. This is similar to creating a mobile-friendly stylesheet, and it involves enlarging the text, removing superfluous crap, and just making your site easier to read from a distance. You can see the stylesheet I created here.

2. Serve the Wii stylesheet to Wii users. The user-agent string of the Wii will be something like Opera/9.00 (Nintendo Wii; U; ; 1309-9; en), so in PHP, you can accompish this like so:
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "Wii;") !== false){ [... wii stylesheet ...] } else { [... regular stylesheets ...] }

And just for fun, I also added an “Optimized for the Nintendo Wii” watermark in the top-right corner and enabled the Wii stylesheet for anyone who adds “?wii=1″ to the end of a URL. For example, here is the Wii-friendly version of this post.