April 16th, 2008

oh, oh, oh - another awful video

Has anyone noticed that most of my recent blog posts have been these stupid YouTube embeds, mostly written on Wednesday nights? It's true... most of my really good material has been going into an IGLOO-based intranet blog. Sorry. I'll remedy that as time allows. This one made me give back my ...
April 16th, 2008

I thought Lou Reed was cool

I thought Lou Reed was cool... until I saw this performance. It's bad enough Lou showed up to participate in this utter disaster, but then he starts in with this contrived Joe Cocker shit? Honestly! Can't musicians just get older gracefully ...
April 16th, 2008

The sorrowful task of finding Javascript news

Why is it that searching for Javascript inevitably returns piles of results for "Java"? Don't the machines that serve up results know that they are two very different things, and I'm interested in the former, not the latter? My employer is hiring right now for a Javascript Expert, and we keep ...
April 7th, 2008

The World’s TOP BLOGS according to ianring.com readers

ianring.com is compiling a list of the WORLD's GREATEST BLOGS. Every few months, I will publish a list of the TOP BLOGS According to ianring.com. This is not a list according to biased industry experts or meaningless traffic statistics! No, this is TOP BLOGS according to the readers of ...
April 4th, 2008

A glimpse of Multi-touch Surface Computing

This is... wow. Just go watch the video, then come back and read the rest of my ravings. http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=933742930 Of course the people in the video are a little too stupidly ambitious - envisioning these on "every surface"? give me a break. But it would be pretty cool to have one ...
March 17th, 2008

Another one hits the front page

wmwhome2.gif Another post hits the front page; this one posing whether XML and JSON are topologically homeomorphic.
March 13th, 2008

a little facelift for ianring.com

Hi everyone! As you probably noticed I made some changes to the design last night. No more right-hand column, no more blogroll, no more random haiku. I've tucked all the extra page fluff and navigation into a bar at the top. Click on "archive" and you'll see. (warning: unlike the ...
March 11th, 2008

charlie bit my finger

another one of those videos that people send you a link and you watch it and think "ha ha ha." then you watch it again a few weeks later and it's still kinda funny then another 10 people send you the link and you don't think it's funny any more then a year ...
March 4th, 2008

A T-shirt that never caught on

shirt.jpg Here's an old one I created the design before going to Pubcon in 2006. No one ordered it. you can get one here btw, in case you can't fill in the obscured words, it says "I met httpwebwitch at Pubcon and all I got was this fucking T-shirt ...
February 22nd, 2008

I’m a Guestwhore.

Rae Hoffman, aka Sugarrae, had me over for a guest post on her popular blog. She calls her guest bloggers "guestwhores", in keeping with a recurring theme on her blog (if you're a regular reader, you'll get it). For the occasion, I prepared a little guide to canonicalization. ...