Less Talk, More DoLess Talk, More Do Christopher Finke is a software engineer at Mahalo. He is available for birthday parties and bar mitzvahs.

Posts tagged with 'Recommendations'

Validation

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

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

The Hand Strikes and Gives a Flower

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

FYI: Season 2 of The Office has arrived in my mailbox; I will be unavailable for the next 18 hours.

Shopping Made Easy

Friday, July 28th, 2006

I don't like to shop. So when I decided that I needed a bigger desk (and a new coffee table and some PC133 SDRAM - email me if you've got extra), I did what lazy shoppers do - I hit up CraigsList. It turns out that since I live within a half hour of a major metropolitan area, there are literally thousands of people e-begging me to buy their desks! It looked like my troubles were over.

Well, finding just the right desk is hard. I need something with lots of open space beneath for PC towers and whatnot, so desks with drawers are out. I also need lots of desktop area to rest my enormous forearms while I type, so regular puny-human sized desks are out too. It looked as if I would be browsing through the CraigsList listings forever, but when I noticed that you can subscribe to a CraigsList search via RSS feed, my task became a whole lot easier.

I subscribed to the RSS feed, and with RSS Ticker installed, new desks for sale scroll across the bottom of my screen within minutes of being posted. I imagine that this method would work with products other than desks, RAM, and coffee tables, but I can't personally confirm it.