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Yes, That Is Entertaining!

Justin Ryan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:49:05 +0000

Google Chrome blocking Apple iTunes downloads? "This frame was blocked because it contains some insecure content." Okay, so it’s obviously just an iframe security certificate conflict or something, but I still find it terribly funny. Is Google trying to tell me something?

“Up here in Alaska…”

Justin Ryan — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:59:49 +0000

Every time Sarah Palin hits the news, there’s always another silly sound bite to go along with her latest conquest. This is sort of expected, but seriously, does everything that comes out of her mouth need to relate to "up here in Alaska"? I can't believe anyone would entrust an entire country’s decisions to someone [...]

You Can Be The Ultimate Gold THUG

Justin Ryan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:38:04 +0000

Finally, should chaos engulf the world, nothing will prove more valuable and versatile than a gold-plated firearm.This baby reaps rewards through any market cycle.Every serious property owner should have at least one.Lawrence Delevingne and Vincent Fernando of The Business Insider from '11 Ways To Cash In On Gold – Start the path and become the [...]

Farewell old friend, GeoCities

Justin Ryan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:00:55 +0000

GeoCities is scheduled for lethal injection today, and despite not having used it for over a decade or more, I'm still sad to see it go.

Even though GeoCities' modus operandi was making it easy to have your own web page, it still required some skill — especially if you wanted to make it look good. (By no means did most of the pages on GeoCities look good.) Additionally, web technologies of the time were much simpler, much easier to get a hold of. To craft a nice page, you needed only to have something to say, and to know a bit about HTML.

Nowadays the barrier for entry to get content on the Internet is so minimal it's a non-issue. With a few clicks a person could install a CMS with pre-built templates, or use a WYSIWYG HTML editor that automatically spits out the proper markup. Despite that, most people's creations still don't look good. Along with these advancements in publishing aides, web technologies have also advanced. In fact they've reproduced, and advanced to the point where it is now a daunting (if not impossible) task to keep up with them all.

For a lot of people, GeoCities was reminiscent of 'the good old days,' and I'm no exception. Without GeoCities to help kick start my interest in web publishing, I would probably not have pursued it as far as I have.

To remember, and say thanks, this is my tribute to GeoCities.

My kind of living room, complete with Ferrari

Justin Ryan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:15:17 +0000

This gentleman clearly has the correct idea when it comes to choosing priorities. Schubert and his award winning garage with attached living room, complete with 1984 Ferrari BB 512i Maserati and Architectural Digest awarded their Design Driven award for best garage to the man in the photo — Holger Schubert — despite there not being [...]

My first custom WordPress layout

Justin Ryan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:11:25 +0000

I have, perhaps, spent the last month thinking about how to redesign and organize my little space, here on the web. In that mean-time, I put up a couple of different temporary home pages, which were made simply to amuse myself. While those did the job of holding down the fort, I went to work [...]

Having Things Done For Me Is A New Experience

Justin Ryan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:22:24 +0000

I'm used to opening notepad.exe (well, actually it’s been PSPad for a while now..) and typing what I want. It is an arduous process somtimes; I have to explicitly state when I want the line to break, when I want something bold, but I like that control. It makes me feel good. I'm not sure [...]