Ryan Joy (atxryan)

atxryan: @kimloop It was good. I’ll go back, but I’m gonna wait ’til it’s warmer. It was freezing while we stood outside and enjoyed out tacos!

"[We] now suffer from a conspiracy of secrecy about the scale of cyber risks. No credit-card company wants to admit how often or how easily it is cheated. No bank or investment house wants to admit how close it has come to being electronically robbed. As a result, the changes in law, regulation, concept, or habit that could make online life safer don’t get discussed. Sooner or later, the cyber equivalent of 9/11 will occur—and, if the real 9/11 is a model, we will understandably, but destructively, overreact.

atxryan: 79% of Dems support gays serving openly in the military; only 43% support homosexuals serving openly. *Slaps forehead* http://is.gd/8bABL

atxryan: My grandaddy’s tractor in Times Square http://snaptweet.com/af651

atxryan posted a photo:

My grandaddy’s tractor appeared on a Times Square Billboard on January 28, 2010 at 4:32pm.

CanvasPop ran a marketing promotion where the first 500(?) canvas prints ordered would appear on a giant digital billboard.

Not too shabby, but I guessed on a few:
"You've got 5 answers wrong (#4, #5, #7, #8, #11).
Very good, but not quite there yet."

atxryan: Currently browsing web.without.words for structured goodness. http://webwithoutwords.com/blog/

atxryan: @matthewcrist heh. It is boring. Also, a content friend said “maybe they should have ‘payed’ a writer for their site content”. #typos

"The repository setup that we use and that works well with this branching model, is that with a central “truth” repo. Note that this repo is only considered to be the central one (since Git is a DVCS, there is no such thing as a central repo at a technical level)."

Cappuccino is an open source framework that makes it easy to build desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser.