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Stackoverflow is the most addictive developer's resource. Go check it out now! I use it myself, and I got to tell ya, they don't call it "crack overflow" for nothing.

Joel helped me find my current job. Check out the Joel on Software job board if you are not happy with yours.

Evernote is the best code, memo, photo, todo, wishlist application I've ever used. Mad props for making Memex real.

What's All this Then?

My name is Michael Krakovskiy, and this is my blog.

Here's what you might find interesting:
100 Views of the Empire State Building project: I try to take 100 interesting photos of Manhattan's (sadly) tallest building.

My Gastronomic Adventures: I eat weird food - from 13 year old New Coke to Durian and parasitic fungi.

My attempts to grow exotic plants: pineapples, coconuts, etc.

My photos, mostly of New York City.

My musings about architecture mostly illustrated with my own photos. Would you like to learn about a mental patient who died at 103 who served as a model for some very famous sculptures? How about Brooklyn's ugliest building? How about a wooden skyscraper?

I find myself frequently writing about logos. The most popular article I ever wrote is about the redesigns of the Starbucks logo.

I wrote a series of "Best Sci-Fi You Haven't Read" posts:

Psywarrior
Yes, Virginia There Is Synergy
Call Time Police - We've Got a Time Traveler

Other topics that interest me include NYPD, New York City subway system, Japan, and things made out of titanium. On top of all of that, I seem to be interested in pigeions and Rupert Murdoch.

Dear reader, please browse around. You are sure to find something interesting. I could really use some help in bringing in readership: subscribe to the rss feed, digg the stories (there's a convenient button at the bottom of every article), link to my blog from yours, write some comments. I put in a lot of effort into writing, and I really appreciate your attention.

If you don't want all this pseudo-intellectual and want some lolcats? Please don't go away. Here, I have that stuff too. Here, here's another. And another. And another. I lied about not posting cat pictures.



State of the Blog

As you might know, a PageRank reshuffle is happening, or already happened. The good news is that thanks to all the links from you, deadprogrammer.com ganed an increase of a point, from 5 to 6! Even my linkblog, which had no PageRank at all got a 5.

According to Feedburner statistics, my readership hovers at just under a thousand.

Bloglines seems to be the aggregator of choice for my readers.

Once again, thank you for reading and for all the links.

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Mon, 10/24/2005 - 16:29 — John (not verified)

Interesting, your stats show Bloglines at 269. I'm one of the actual Bloglines users and when I and viewing your blog, they are reporting 182.

Where are the missing 87 readers?

Trapped in a transdimensional gateway deep within the NYC subway system?

Mon, 10/24/2005 - 17:01 — deadprogrammer

Subscribed to the Atom feed which now also redirects to Feedburner.

Mon, 10/24/2005 - 19:45 — zaba (not verified)

I notice Sage is not mentioned in the pie chart. Does that fall under "Other Readers" or "Firefox Live Bookmarks"?

When I first started getting the feed for this page, I know I was reading it through Sage. On the other hand, the way I got this site into Sage was by using the Live Bookmarks feed.

Also, do you know if you get hits from the Firefox Live Bookmarks when someone actually visits the page, or is the hit recorded when Firefox records a new entry?

Finally, it will be interesting to see your stats in a quarter or so, now that Google has it's own reader. (It will be interesting for me, anyway, since it's pretty much the only way I read feeds anymore).

Keep up the great stuff on here.

Mon, 10/24/2005 - 20:55 — deadprogrammer

That is just an overview graph from Feedburner, they also have a more detailed breakdown of aggregators. They record the total number of hits from the browsers as well as the number of users.

On the other note, Google reader is one of the worst one I've seen yet. Google seems to be very boneheaded when it comes to blogging for some reason - just look at how crummy Blogger service is. The blog search is good though.

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