I am Steve Fink.

You are not.

Or if you are, you are merely one of those small, irritating steve finks who exist purely to frustrate my Google vanity searches.

These days, I am slowly writing a blog on my wiki, but it tends to pretty technical discussion about things I'm working on, so there's a pretty restricted set of people who could conceivably be interested. And now I've pretty much switched to LiveJournal, where I don't write anything.

I have also ranted about the evils of information hiding. If you disagree with it, then it's probably more right than wrong for you. If you agree with it (like I do!), then it's most likely more wrong than right. We humans are funny that way.

Speaking of ranting, here's one on command-line vs graphical interfaces.

Or, for something a little different, let tell you about what it was like to watch God create the universe.

Hey! You could also read some of the drivel I have written at PerlMonks. And I just noticed that none of them have much of anything to do with Perl; they're mostly about programming and being a corporate serf. I really ought to move them over to a blog or something. Let's see...

• Someone asked for a way to visualize XSLT, which I felt I had to respond to.
• After a disappointing interview, I felt the need to rant about interviewees' lack of enthusiasm.
• Somebody was asking people about how they came to learn different computer languages, so although I'm sure everyone has a similar story, I told about how I learned Perl.
• In a confessional thread about writing bad code, I described in great detail why I'm a bad programmer.
• I gave some advice on whether to return to school for advancing one's career.
• This won't make much sense unless you hang out on PerlMonks.org, but I believe I came up with the best possible solution to the constant struggle to find a good way to summarize the worthiness of nodes.
• Just to prove that I'm as full of shit as the next guy, I gave advice on code sharing. Sorta.
• I also did a brief reprise of a previous life, and gave an algorithm for estimating document similarity. (None of the ideas are mine, btw -- I just know about them because Alex Aiken, my advisor at UCBerkeley, started up a company doing exactly this. So I described his algorithm.)
• Someone gave what smelled to me like fishy advice about how to start a new job, so I countered with my own (bad advice).
• A weird rant about the usefulness of college education. Ever read something you wrote a while back and been unable to figure out whether you agree with yourself?
• My take on coding style (well, formatting style)
• A discussion on "quality"
• Some of what I have previously described as rants really weren't, so here's a genuine rant about open-source consumers who are just too damn demanding. Or maybe it would be better described as an explanation of how and why open source projects are started. Note that my rant has nothing to do with the original thread, but you'll probably have to read it to understand what I'm going on about.
• Meat heads don't think orthogonally.

Or how about a cartoon? I came up with a very vague idea for my friend Tipatat Chennavasin, who writes a monthly comic strip. He made it into a real idea and illustrated it, and was nice enough to give me a byline.

Or something useful, perhaps.

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