Blog of Josh Hall

If you’re not familiar with the L.I.V.I.N.G Ministry, it’s an organization dedicated to serving the homeless and needy in the Pittsburgh area.  They have a few outreach programs that range from a large clothing drive event in the fall, job fairs, preparing breakfast for labor hall workers at 5am, Bible studies, and the biggest is [...]

Well, some of you already knew, but now that it didn’t pan out, we’re allowed to talk about it.  Back in April, Chemistry.com (where Kallie and I met) contacted us and wanted us to be interviewed by a “national magazine” about our story.  Turns out it was People Magazine.  So they called Kallie, asked her [...]

Obama’s new spending involves light rail or high speed train development in Pittsburgh.  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09106/963340-100.stm Hopefully, that will just mean that the maglev project will reach fruition.  http://www.maglevpa.com/

In recent sports news, Grapevine Faith played Gainesville State School in football, but the fans from Faith rooted for the other team.  The formed a line for the other team to run through at the beginning of the game, the made a sign for them to bust through, and cheered for them throughout the game.  [...]

So I’m playing with my new iphone, and I’m fascinated by all the possibilities.  I’ll be sure to tell you about productivity enhancers later.  For now, I want to share a little app I found called Fstream (direct link to app store download page here).  There are other music apps that cost money to use, like simplify [...]

Forget the wheel chair.  Let’s move into cyborg territory with a system that can act as an exoskeleton and help you walk! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7582240.stm Awesome stuff.  I can’t even begin to imagine the positive effect this will have on people.

Isaac Hayes and Bernie Mac die 1 day apart and they’re working on the same movie, Soul Men.  That’s pretty whacky, right?  I never really cared for Bernie Mac…at all, but that’s farely nuts, I think.  Seems to be an occuring theme for movie stars to die while in production.  New form of marketing?

saw this in my headline reader today.  You’d think people would learn to stay away from the reservoir!

Soon, you’ll be able to register any top level domain (TLD) you like.  A TLD is like the .net, .com., .org, .gov, etc of websites.  This will be chaos on a stick.  So many peope are going to be "cybersquatting" which means I would go and register .pepsi before Pepsi would, and if they wanted [...]

A few people have been coming here to find out what’s up with legendofsix.com.  It was disabled over the weekend due to "excessive CPU usage."  The host is refusing to enable the server for me to move the domain or so i can get the latest snapshot of the database.  It seems this won’t be [...]