Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: Blog

  • New Web Host

    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

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

  • Owning my name

    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

    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…

  • Glowing recommendation

    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…

  • Feedback

    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…

  • Greencode WordPress Theme Update (0.4)

    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

    Wiiiii!

  • 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…

  • Guilty as charged…

    Busted…

  • Content theft

    I noticed via a pingback to one of my posts that someone is scraping all of my blog posts, publishing them at netscape9.com, and displaying Adsense ads next to them. I don’t know which route I should take first: get their Google Adsense account closed for violating the TOS, contact GoDaddy about the user using…

  • On resurrecting Digg’s Top Users page

    My restoration of Digg’s Top Users page yesterday got a lot of press around the Web: Both the list and my blog post about the list were submitted to Digg, but both were buried off of the front page. (Buried, or manually removed?) Michael Arrington mentioned the list at TechCrunch, and the readers commenting on…

  • Greencode WordPress Theme Updated (0.3)

    I’ve updated the Greencode WordPress theme (which I’m using on my site) to version 0.3. Since version 0.2, I’ve added a print stylesheet (screenshot of a printed page below), optimized the header image to reduce its size by half, and fixed a few miscellaneous bugs. You can download the newest version from the Greencode homepage.

  • Finally, some recognition

    Google sees me for who I really am.

  • Social Traffic Monitor 1.2

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ After giving it a workout this week with all the visitors to my blog from Digg and StumbleUpon, I’ve made some changes to the Social Traffic Monitor plugin for WordPress, and I’m releasing version 1.2. Since version 1.1, I’ve added StumbleUpon as a social…

  • Sign of success

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ Just got this automated e-mail: The domain chrisfinke.com has reached 90% of its bandwidth limit for January. Please contact the system admin as soon as possible. Thanks a lot, Digg! I better lay low for a while… :-)

  • Hackers and Downloaders

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ Welcome, readers of Lifehacker and Download Squad. I hope you find URL Fixer as useful as I do. Feel free to check out my other extension and software projects, and if you find any of it interesting, go ahead and subscribe to my feed.…

  • Newish design

    I’ve updated this blog to share a design with my main site. Bonus points to anyone who can determine the sources of the code shown in the header image for either site.

  • 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…

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