Ryan Joy (atxryan)

Paul Menard has taken it upon himself to start up Austin’s first WordPress Meetup Group. If you use WordPress as a blogging tool or are thinking about using it, then you should check out the Meetup.com and Google group. Same goes if you’re interested in using WordPress as a CMS solution for client projects. http://groups.google.com/group/wordpress-austin [...]

I finished 1454 out of 16,082 runners in this year’s 30th annual Statesman Capitol 10,000 with a chip-time of 52:46.2 minutes and an average pace of 8:30/mile. Besides me not passing out, other notable news from that day was that Nicodemus Malakwen broke the previous course record by finishing in 29:42 minutes.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No it won’t from The Onion. This war will not put an end to anti-Americanism; it will fan the flames of hatred even higher. It will not end the threat of weapons of mass destruction; it will make [...]

.entry img {margin: 3px;} In a word: Awesome. I met new great people and hung out with people I already knew were great. I’m still exhausted. I slept so little and drank so much each night! In fact, just by listing all of the evening events I somehow crawled to below, I realize that I [...]

Disclaimer: I work for the Austin American-Statesman; provider of Statesman.com and Austin360.com. Congratulatory praise goes to the Austin360 editorial staff and my coworker Ginny Min for their work and quick turnaround. Tonight Austin360 unveiled their newest SXSW guide to day parties and side events separate from the main conference offerings. If you’re smart enough to [...]

The latest creation to come out of Google Labs has partnered with our own Capital Metro just in time to provide much needed guidance to all the out-of-towners in Austin for SXSW wanting to know which bus to take to get from the Alamo South Lamar to 6th street and then to Magnolia’s. Try it [...]

Since my avatar across the Internet is atxryan, I decided to update my website’s URL to reflect this. If you notice any broken links or images, please let me know via email @ r [at] joyserve.net. Update: I was experiencing a lot of problems with this transition last night and this morning but I believe [...]