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

Category: Nerd

  • Twitter: What *are* people doing?

    Twitter exists solely for people to answer the question “What are you doing?”, and its users have been answering that question thousands of times per day since it launched. In an effort to find out what exactly Twitter’s users are doing, I checked a sample of 500,000 tweets to see what the most common “-ing”…

  • A gift from ages past

    My family was in town this week, and my dad brought with him a gift for me. He related to me how they had been doing some cleaning at their church, going through some areas of the old building that had been neglected for far too long, when a staff member came across an interesting…

  • Optimizing Your Website for the Wii

    Wiiiii!

  • Looking Foxy

    My “Firefox 2 Addons Team” t-shirt finally arrived in the mail! I’ll have to look into getting AOL to spring for shirts that say “I worked on Netscape 9 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and a great browsing experience.”

  • 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…

  • “Dave & Buster’s” pwns j00

  • Why I love Bittorrent

    Time to download 698MB Ubuntu ISO via the University of Minnesota’s fat pipes: 4 hours Time to download 698MB Ubuntu ISO via 37 different users using uTorrent: 21 minutes

  • Something I can’t stand about Digg

    Here’s something I can’t stand about Digg: Say you’re not logged in and browsing the front page, opening stories and discussions in tabs (or new windows, if you’re stuck in the past) as you go, and you see a story you want to either digg or bury. So you go to the login box on…

  • Some indicators are frighteningly accurate

    I just glanced at my iTunes playlist, and my top two songs by play count are “Code Monkey” and “White and Nerdy.”

  • Nah, na na na nah, na na na nah, na na nah, na na nah, na na na nah

    I just noticed that the delay between when I mouseover a bookmark folder in Firefox and when the folder’s contents appear is the same duration of one beat of Ini Kamoze’s “Here Come the Hot-Stepper.” I then spent 30 seconds opening bookmark folders to the beat. I don’t know what’s worse – the fact that…

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