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

Category: Life

  • Fatasha, Jason. Jason, Fatasha.

    The text of this post has been removed in order to protect a victim of identity theft.

  • Fatasha Ruffin

    So I’ve been thinking of upgrading the 15 year-old TV I got for $7 at a garage sale. It’s been good to me, but lately its picture has started to blur and its color has started to fade. It actually lasted about 2 years, which is 23.5 months more than I expected to get out…

  • Whose campaign are they really helping?

    How do you know when you’re supporting the right candidate? When Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are stumping for his challenger. Note: I am neither a Connecticutian (?) nor a Democrat, but I’ve always thought Lieberman (at least appears) to be a decent guy and a competent politician.

  • Spellin’ It Out

    Actual transcript of one side of a phonecall I just received: “So, Chris, I heard you got a new job! Congratulations! Say, my son is looking for a job, and Sally said that you used some resume website. Do you have the name of that site?… murse.com?… dmerse?… d?… Immerse.com? Oh, e… m… …as in…

  • Mission Accomplished

    Thanks, Craigslist!

  • Kickin’ It, OPML Style

    As much as I love XML files and the way that browsers display them with their little plus and minus toggles, a file is no good to me unless I can read and utilize the data it contains. So while OPML is great for storing link and feed data, I can’t really navigate an OPML…

  • Shopping Made Easy

    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…

  • Why not?

    Sixteen days ago, I read a blurb about a new resume hosting site called emurse.com. Being the early adopter that I am (except when adopting a blog, apparently), I signed up to make sure that I could get my preferred username; there are a lot of C. Finkes out there vying for the obvious six-character…

  • 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.

  • Grade Viewer Tool

    Today I added the grade tool to my little list of helpful applications. You can enter in all the grades for your classes and what percentage of your total grade they are worth and find out a whole bunch of useful statistics about your current academic standing. It all works now, after I fixed a…

  • School

    Well, the spring semester started today. Can’t say I’m excited about it, but whatever. I ended up dropping down to 16 credits so that I would be able to keep my job this semester, so I’ll be taking Physics 1302 probably this summer.

  • Event Scheduler

    I made leaps and bounds tonight in the way of updates and fixes for an event scheduling tool I wrote. I reorganized all the code, probably cutting the amount of it in half. I also rewrote a part so that CSS was not used to represent data, which is completely backwards. The schedule now truly…

  • EmanuelHamburg.org

    This is a site I did as a volunteer for Emanuel Lutheran School of Hamburg, MN. It was my first encounter with a roll-your-own CMS system, which started out pretty rough. I eventually got it working at a satisfactory level, and coming up in April when the domain runs out, I’ll probably just be letting…

  • NCAmbulance.com

    This was one of the first sites that I did for money. I still maintain it, but it holds together pretty nicely. Also run by a basic CMS that the guys at North Central can take care of, it’s done pretty well for itself.

  • Toby Web Mail

    Toby is a Web-based POP3/IMAP mail client I’ve been working on since November of 2003, I think. It’s been pretty stable for a couple of weeks, so you know what that means… I’m going to screw it up again! I’ll be adding some more features in the next month, as well as getting a first…

  • FLCWilliston.org

    This is a site I have almost completed for First Lutheran Church in Williston, ND. There’s been some issues with the server freezing lately, probably due to PHP copying files around… probably. It’s powered by a pretty basic CMS that I used on a couple of other sites, but I made a lot of improvements…

  • AlohaGoldCard.com

    Here’s a site that I’ve been working with since April of 2003. I just recently converted the bulk of it to XHTML 1.0 (or is it 1.1?) strict and implemented an all-CSS layout system. I think it looks so much sharper than it used to.

  • Might As Well

    Well, I decided that I might as well try out this “blogging” thing that everyone was talking about in late 2001 into early 2002, now that it is 2004. I’ll post things here that are probably only of interest to me, but feel free to pry into my life by reading.

  • Movie Review: D3: The Mighty Ducks

    The third movie in the The Mighty Ducks trilogy lives up to all of the standards set by the first two movies. It is fast-paced and exciting. But you can predict every move through the whole movie. The Ducks are given a full scholarship to a private school called Eden Hall Academy. Almost immediately, the…

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