Today I added a whole bunch of cafepress and zazzle products with my site logotype on it. Buttons, magnets, t-shirts, a bbq apron, and even a thong. Get your ianring.com merch today! It's on the home page for now.

Today I quit my job working as a bouncer at a speakeasy. I never really worked as a bouncer. It was a joke I've shared with my daughter for the past 2 years. How would I explain to a cute little 2 year old girl what I do for a living? Would she, whose ...

Today I was consulted to debug a rather nasty bit of AJAX - a paging script that lives within Community Server. The problem appeared spontaneously on a bunch of sites where we applied a new ISAPI Rewrite rule: one that finds any instances of "default.aspx" and scrubs them out via redirection. Why ...

So, today I was working on a bunch of beta stuff for a Yahoo API that's coming out, and found an XML well-formedness error in their feed. I hate to seem uppity, but it felt good! In your FACE, Yahoo! It's like, there's Yahoo this huge megalithic company and there's me, and ...

Welcome to my site - first post on my blog and it's about time I started using this domain for something besides hosting a bunch of self-gratifying experiments. I've set up a few stub pages with nothing on them, so keep coming back to see what goes on. I'll post a ...