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.

• August 26th, 2004

  This seems especially fitting right now…

  If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or [...]

• August 19th, 2004

  It’s Just ‘wired magazine’ Now

  Effective with this sentence, I, Chris Finke, will no longer capitalize the “W” and “M” in wired magazine. At the same time, Wired News becomes wired news. Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was. True believers are fond of capitalizing words, [...]

• August 16th, 2004

  Common Sense and Logic for President in 2020

  In case I forget, here’s my platform for when I run for President in 2020: The metric system: we should use it. All measurements must be have metric equivalents listed by the end of my first term. The U.S. will be metric-only by the end of my second term. College textbook prices: they’re ridiculous. A [...]

• July 19th, 2004

  Hi Christina

  Hi Christina, I love you! [This post originally appeared on my first blog, "Here's What You Should Think."]

• July 11th, 2004

  Fahrenheit 9/11: Film Disguised as Crap, or Vice Versa?

  I just watched Michael Moore’s new film, Fahrenheit 9/11. I can honestly say that it is the worst movie I have ever seen. I don’t mean that it was bad like uninteresting; I mean it was bad like just bad. Poorly written, poorly produced, and poorly conceived. It is just plain boring. This is coming [...]

• July 9th, 2004

  Sorry Ladies, but I’m Off the Market

  Yes, it’s true. Yesterday, July 8, I proposed to Christina Tewes, and she said yes, making it the happiest day of my life. [This post originally appeared on my first blog, "Here's What You Should Think."]

• July 8th, 2004

  574 and Rising

  anyInventory is still on the front page of SourceForge, and the Google tally for anyInventory results is up to 574. Again, most of these are SourceForge newsfeeds, but here’s a link that was independently added: Chris’s Thoughts on anyInventory. [This post originally appeared on my first blog, "Here's What You Should Think."]

• July 5th, 2004

  Results – They Keep Going, and Going, and Going…

  A couple days ago when I started keeping track of how many results Google returned for “anyinventory”, the total stood at 99. Today, 4 days later, we’re up to 420. This is mostly due to the announcement of 1.7.1 being posted to the front page of SourceForge, but there’s a couple sites linking independently. No [...]