My lovely coworker Shawn took a detour from his usual goofiness to send HP a message today. Since rating is what I do here, and everybody else is reposting it, I figure I’d better get in on the game too.

I don’t know if anyone else descends to the same level of egotism that I do or not, but one of my guilty pleasures is a Google Blog Search feed for “Justin Ryan” — if people are talking about me, I want to know about it! (And be able to print it out and put [...]

Change can be a really good thing. If I give someone a $20 bill for a $5 purchase, there had better be change or the exchange that follows will be decidedly unpleasant. If the FDA suddenly discovers that one of the meds I take every day causes a third arm to sprout out the back [...]

For about the last week, I’ve been teasing my esteemed colleague Marcel Gagné — Linux Journal’s celebrated Chef Français — after he posted a video of himself on Cooking With Linux speaking perfect English and dressed like an ordinary geek. Given that Marcel is French Canadian and can’t really be expected to wander around wearing a [...]

My guess — with no data to back me up other than what I know about the people I know— is that most people don’t think about antipsychotic drugs on a regular, or even occasional, basis. For that matter, I suspect most people couldn’t name an antipsychotic if asked — though I’m pretty sure they [...]