Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• February 16th, 2007

  Feed subscribers

  Now that Google Reader is reporting the number of users subscribed to a feed, I can finally tell that there are 35 people using Google Reader to read my feed. I wouldn’t have thought that 35 people *total* subscribed to my feed, but judging by what the other user-agents are reporting, about 50 people use [...]

• January 30th, 2007

  Finally, some recognition

  Google sees me for who I really am.

• January 20th, 2007

  The A to Z of me

  I’ve been thinking recently that it’d be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we? archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD. blog.netscape.com: the official [...]

• January 14th, 2007

  Who are you? Who, who, who, who?

  Apparently, when you post to Slashdot claiming to be someone you may not be, people don’t take your word for it. In the hour after I wrote that post, my access logs show that 10 different people searched Google for “Christopher Finke” and ended up at my site. (This normally happens about twice a month.) [...]

• December 3rd, 2006

  You can find anything on eBay…

• November 28th, 2006

  frist psot

  Some interesting Google searches for which my blog is the first result: it hailed mandeltastic the hand strikes and gives a flower nah na na comment voting netscape is my portal to nookie and from someone who is apparently debating whether to finish high school or drop out and become a gameshow host, what grade [...]

• October 1st, 2006

  Validation

  Just noticed from my referrer logs that Google is linking to my OPML Support for Firefox extension from its Google Reader FAQ. Neat.