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    Obsessive Compulsive started by Ryan Parman
    I think I’m obsessive-compulsive.
    Not like the guy who washes his hands hundreds of times a day, or like Adrian Monk — the TV detective that suffers from all sorts of phobias and anxieties and has these oddball little quirks — kind of obsessive.
    But a little.
    Apple’s NeXT Step: Mac OS X86™ started by Ryan Parman
    Ryan discusses his thoughts on the Intel-based Mac, and becomes the first person he knows of to use the term “OS X86″.
    Happy Birthday, Emily Ann Boydston started by Ryan Parman
    Happy Birthday, Emily Ann Boydston! I know it’s been a while since we’ve talked, and I know that this is an old picture (1998), but happy 22nd birthday. I hope that things are going great for you!
    And the “Best Wife in the World” award goes to… started by Ryan Parman
    Ryan talks about some of the really, really, really cool toys his wife got him for Christmas.
    Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 (Build 5335.5) started by Ryan Parman
    For those who hadn’t yet heard, there is an updated version of Internet Explorer 7 available. If you want to run it in standalone mode, Jon Galloway’s IE7 Launcher will do the trick nicely.

    Lots of information can be found about IE7, specifically improved CSS compliance (hasn’t yet been updated with the current build information, […]
    Skyzyx: Downloads started by Ryan Parman
    Ryan makes his download archive available to the public.
    Using Safari? Lucky You. started by Ryan Parman
    I’ve spent the day scouring the web for information on whether or not any build of Mozilla has support for the CSS2 text-shadow property. It doesn’t, which sucks. Why does it suck? Because I’m not able to see what Safari 1.1+ users are able to see: drop shadows on text without graphics.
    Now, […]
    God Came Near started by Ryan Parman
    When Jesus came to this earth over 2000 years ago, he came as a child — a baby. Although he was God in human flesh, he didn’t have the kind of birth that should be owed to the future king. Rather being born in a warm, clean hospital, his parents were kicked out […]
    Tiger Revisited: A Month Into It started by Ryan Parman
    Ryan discusses his thoughts on Tiger after a month of use.
    Luposlipaphobia started by Ryan Parman
    I went ahead and created a new blog last week called “Luposlipaphobia”. For those who are not aware, “Luposlipaphobia” is in reference to an old comic strip called “The Far Side” by Gary Larson.

    Luposlipaphobia: The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor.

    Although […]
    Movie Reviews started by Ryan Parman
    I saw five movies while on vacation in San Diego this past week-and-a-half. None of them sucked, but some were better than others. I will devulge some plot information here, so if you don’t want to know, then don’t read this post. Here are their reviews:

    Finding Nemo: This was an excellent flick. […]
    Linkin Park: Meteora Tracks started by Ryan Parman
    I came across the Linkin Park website tonight, and stumbled across some audio tracks from their new album, “Meteora”. My favorites (that I’ve heard anyways) are “Faint”, “Somewhere I Belong”, and “Don’t Stay”. I think that those tracks stand out to me for personal reasons. Namely, one particular
    People-Centric Web started by Ryan Parman
    Last year, I co-founded a company by the name of Foleeo (which will likely change names because of Palm’s Foleo) that is working on a solution to the ever-increasing rift between record labels, movie studios, and people like you and me who want to get music, movies, and TV shows under far more reasonable terms. […]
    SimplePie Plugin for Wordpress started by Ryan Parman
    When we launched SimplePie Beta 2 last week, we launched with a couple of plugins. The first is a SimplePie Plugin for Wordpress, the ever-popular blogging tool from the fine folks at automattic. This plugin adds a single function to your Wordpress function ensemble that makes it simple to add SimplePie to your […]
    Obama ‘08 started by Ryan Parman
    I was born and raised a fundamentalist Christian Republican. I voted for Bush both times — not because I liked him, but because he was the Republican candidate, I didn’t really care, and the Democratic candidates seemed like a worse choice.

    But over the past few years, I’ve really been digging into the details of legislation […]
    Using Del.icio.us Feeds With SimplePie started by Ryan Parman
    I know that a lot of people are using Magpie RSS to power their del.icio.us sidebar links, so I figured I’d throw out a code sample showing how you could use SimplePie for the same task. If you need to come to terms with why SimplePie might be a better choice of RSS parser, […]
    Conditional Comments in Standalone Internet Explorer started by Ryan Parman
    This was written by Manfred Staudinger from Vienna, Austria

    With a small, one-time change, Conditional Comments will work again and recognize the values 5.0 and 6.0, again; however, it will not recognize 5.5.

    How is it done? Go to the registry and look in HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerVersion Vector for the key IE. Simply get rid of it by […]
    Status Icon Sets: Flat, Glass, and Shadow started by Ryan Parman
    Ryan offers up some icons he designed for all the Ajax development he’s been doing lately.
    Eight things you may or may not know about me. started by Ryan Parman
    Eight things you may or may not know about me. (This list was inspired by my friend Liz who also wrote such a list.)
    SimplePie’s Triumphant Return! started by Ryan Parman
    It’s been a year since the last SimplePie release, but that doesn’t mean the project is dead. Fortunately I was able to get some help from Geoffers, and he actually ended up driving most of the development since he came on board over the summer.

    I wish I could tell you that a shiny new […]
    Windows Vista Fonts started by Ryan Parman
    Ryan posts some cool fonts he found a few weeks ago online.
    Staying Relevant started by Ryan Parman
    I’ve been thinking lately about how to stay relevant in our booming and ever-changing web industry. I’ve been watching successful relative newcomers like MySpace, Digg, YouTube, del.icio.us, Last.fm, Flickr, Newsvine and Twitter to get a sense of what they are/aren’t doing. I’m trying to understand what they have (to attribute
    WML/WAP Feed for Cell Phones started by Ryan Parman
    By the way, if anyone came here looking for a WML/WAP feed for their cell phone or PDA, I’ve got one now.
    Britney Is So Freaking Hot! started by Ryan Parman
    I’m having a very difficult time comprehending how one single person could possibly be so hot! Now, I don’t know much about her personally. I don’t know if she got breast implants, I don’t know if she’s cool, stupid, or stuck-up, but that’s not what I’m talking about anyways. I’m talking purely […]
    Proof that the youth are revolting started by Ryan Parman
    I’ve been sitting here for 10 minutes trying to think of a good opening line, and I can’t. I’m speechless. Something very intriguing is happening this very moment: The users of Digg are outright revolting. This is the digital equivalent of the Los Angeles riots. But what’s more interesting is the fact that as of 9:00pm PST, Digg is letting them.
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