Blog of Josh Hall

well, the blood test results are in. I have AIDS. I am having a tough time narrowing it down to who i got it from though. nah, all is good with this blood, you had any doubts?

So Jordan slaughtered my highscore in space invaders again. that is going to take me a while to beat. he apparently has some sort of strategy about it though. but i will have my victory soon enough. i still have all the high scores in all the other games:)

4 registered users today! welcome keren, silenkiller (please, introduce yourself!) Jordan, and mr. andy vargo. i change the layout a bit of the website to fix another bug i found. I also added a cool script so when you enter my site from google, yahoo, techimo, hotmail, and a few others, it gives you a personal message. to see an example, click the first link here

any other questions and problems let me know. I am going to work on a few forum features this week like custom titles. we will see how that goes though, i have that leadership retreat this weekend. i am so pumped! hasta luego!

so we meet again…this weekend was pretty cool, got to hang out with my onts and unks, saw my grandma, saw Return of the King, took some pictures, played some board games, made a little love, and got down tonight. pretty fun weekend. but all good things come to an end, so i am back at work now.

the committee is having some DB troubles, so you may notice a few fresh faces around here. mostly everyone on that site is from North Carolina, and are just a great bunch of people, and a very tight pack of friends.

I see Jordan beat my score on Space Invaders so i will have to beat that tonight. shouldn’t be too hard. 😉 I found a flash version of Simon and 2 person tic tac toe, let me know if you would be interested in seeing those.

nothing else too much going on this week except for work, i dont know what i am doing for new years yet. i work til 11pm though, so i cant do too much.

i have this song that has been in my head for over a year now. i have all the parts and lyrics and everything completed in my head, and every once and a while i sing it and want to record it, but never do, because in my head, Finger Eleven sings it. it is so perfect for them. it fits so well with their sound. so my goal is to have a song, that either some one else does, and they get all the credit, or even just one song, played on the radio for even a few seconds. i want to be a one hit wonder.

Alright party people, miss me? Just hung out at the apartment for christmas. ate some pizza, watched some movies, cleaned the apartment, cut my own hair…again, and becky came up to exchange gifts:) her rocking self got me a camera! so there should be a bunch of photos in the gallery from your’s truly.

Uncle Jay and Aunt Leslie are in for a bit, gunna hang out with them over the weekend, and hopefully uncle kenny and the family will give me a call too. Trying to catch Return of the King with bob tomaro, and maybe stop by Andy’s for a party. we will see how things go.

i got an email from my old advisor, Carlton, saying that he noticed i hadn’t done too well this semester, and wanted to know if i wanted to set up an appt. with him. I did. He rocks, my CS advisor blows hard, and i am going to change my major. Carlton says business isnt a good idea for me, since credits i have wont count for my major in business. So right now, i am thinking Philosophy, Communications, or some sort of English. probably in that order too.

i have been working my butt of over break. i should get a nice paycheck come end of january. Pitt sucks becuase we get paid once a month, at the end of the month, for the previous month. but oh well.

i have been working with Sil to get the site fully functional, and i think it is coming around. I just learned that the shoutbox was still being pulled from my server, and i am at work, and i cant change that from here, but it will be back later on. Still havent figured out the recent movies block. Kim Jenko pointed out that the high scores weren’t working, but those are fixed now, and if you see anything else buggy, let me know!

the keyboard layout that people use today is called “QWERTY” but it is not the most efficient layout that has been used, just the most popular. The Dvorak keyboard layout has many advantages over it, people see speed and accuracy increases, and less pain when using the keyboard. This isn’t a new idea though, it is acutally quite an old layout, but people didn’t want to learn something new, and manufactures couldn’t profit from something they couldn’t sell. So why don’t we use the Dvorak layout? I don’t know. It is similar situation to the Metric vs. English measurement system. We are just too lazy too make the switch. You can read more about the Dvorak layout here.

alrighty, i bought www.sixf00t4.com and www.JoshuaDHall.com so you can take your pick on which one to remember. sixf00t4.ath.cx will still work, it will just point you to sixf00t4.com

and with the new names, my friend SiliconJunkie was nice enough to host the site. His business is Metro-Host.com, be sure to recommend him to anyone, as I do.

With the new site, come some obstacles though… for the moment, the gallery can’t accept .gif images. and the latest movies block isn’t working, and the weather block isn’t displaying, but it still works if you click on weather on the menu to the left.