Ryan Joy (atxryan)

What news have you heard or seen on Twitter first? I’m talking about the kind of news that would’ve been breaking on CNN had you been watching at the time. After each of these tweet discoveries, I went to the Internet to find out more. Here, I’ll go first… this is all from memory, so [...]

Even if the offshore drill ban were lifted, the world’s existing drill-ships are booked solid for the next 5 years http://tinyurl.com/4zdw54 # @robquig I’m somewhat surprised, but I also believe the results speak for themselves once you see readers actively engaging your brand. # @Schrades it is Unplugged at the Grove every Thursday night. Tonight [...]

@davidherrold that’s funny. I’ve done that before by accident and I joked that I “shopLEFT”. # heading to Hempstead to attend a funeral. # To have 400+ people show up to pay their respect is awe inspiring. It also makes for an incredibly long procession. # Add another couple of hundred who are standing along [...]

*now* I see why it’s called the Boom Boom Room. it’s aptly named. # @traumanursejade made a tomato pie for dinner w/ various tomatoes from my brother’s garden. She, @jmeek , @atxkat and I are loving it. # I can haz Firefox ‘classic’ theme for my Mac? # @drhayes Lots of Mac users have complained [...]

At TC’s on the east side for some austin soul. This place makes of happy… and intimidates me. # That shot of Patron took two swallows. Ugh. Happy birthday random girl. # Mozilla’s Firefox page has already been given me intermittent “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” all this morning. # what are the chances I’m gonna be [...]

My development environment consists of a Dell PC (with dual flat panel displays) and my Macbook Pro. I’d LOVE to add a third monitor to the PC to be dedicated to the stack trace, diagnostic outputs, and console logs, but that’s another story. On these machines I have IDEs, an SQL analyzer, and text editors [...]

just got back from a great weekend in Galveston/Houston. Unfortunately, I must go back for a funeral on Thurs. # I *really* dislike when sites expire their cookies too fast. I clicked ‘Remember me’ so expire the damn thing in 1 year, not 1 week! # Mac peeps: has anyone ever had their hostname change [...]

At a gorgeous wedding and extravagant reception at the Hotel Galvez in Galveston. #

eating lunch in Houston, then heading out to Galveston for a wedding tonight and beach time tomorrow. #

I thought the Spore demo at SXSW 2007 was amazing. However, I think their website was pulled out of 2000. http://www.spore.com/ftl #