Blog of Josh Hall

heh, just browsing through the old posts on my blog and found this:  http://www.sixf00t4.com/article480.html  Pretty funny considering the timing and my recent thoughts on turning 26.  I don’t remember writing that post at all, and that is why I love documenting my life.

Tim, Jordan, and I were down at Rock Bottom wednesday night and we were talking about facebook applications and their new found popularity and demand.  Facebook itself has transmogrified itself from the first incarnation as a Harvard thing, then a college thing, then branched out to include high school students, and now it’s just for everybody.  It beat sites like Linked In to their own idea probably just from the sheer size of their userbase.

I personally enjoy facebook.  I hate the phone, I’m always on a computer, and I have friends all over the place.  It lets me stay "close" to friends, and lets others do the same with me.  The problem that myspace ran into was ads, poor UI, and corporate saturation.  I’m not sure facebook will meet the same demise, but it’s coming close.  businesses are realizing the market(ing) opportunities that facebook possesses, and they want to tap it like a keg.  They want new applications written and added to the functionality of facebook, just like how every company wanted a web URL back in the 90s.  "You’re not cool unless you have a .com"  Now you’re missing out until you have facebook.  Take a look at Papa John’s new marketing strategy of offering a free pizza if you become their friend on facebook.  College kids will eat that up, literally.

So instead of getting the sunday coupons in the mail, we’ll get group invitations on facebook.  At least it’s paperless, right?

So many new announcements going on in Pittsburgh!  We just have to find out how we’re going to pay for it all.

The New Granada theatre nears it’s financing goal of $1.1M.  It’s a block from my house and it is such a sad thing to see it falling apart.  If they can get the rest of that money, it would be amazing.  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08317/927187-53.stm

 The David Lawrence Convention center just released plans for an $8.5 M project to connect the bike trails from point state park (affectionately known as pennisula park).  They just don’t know where the money is coming from yet… http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08325/929364-53.stm

The Majestic Star Casino will officially be called the Rivers Casino after Don Barden lost the license and Neil Bluhm took over.  http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08325/929355-53.stm

Broken seems to be the theme of the week.

Monday – surfing around on my PC and then it just shutsdown.  POOF.  I have yet to get it back on.  I checked the power supply, memory, motherboard, nothing.  Tim let me borrow a PC to frankenstein to figure it out.  That sucks though.

Tuesday – Went to go pick up Jordan at work and then watch the Pens game at his house, and I get into my truck and there is no key tumbler in the steering wheel and the face plate to my stereo is gone.  That sucks.  Looks like they’re going to have to replace the entire steering column.  WEEE.

Wednesday – can’t think of anything physical that broke wednesday.  I just know that I’m broke.  That’s before the PC and truck repairs too.  I’m making a strong effort to not eat out for lunch and less for dinner as well. 

Thursday – Had the conversion from microsoft exchange to lotus notes today at work.  I didn’t have email access or blackberry mail until about 12:30.  WEAK.

Let’s see what friday has in store…I can’t take much more and neither can my wallet!

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."

 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kuhn’s has been selected to build a full service grocery store, pharmacy, bakery, cafe in the Hill District.  They outed the bid from the Save-A-Lot to just build a cheap grocery store.  This place will be about 3 blocks from my house and on my way home from work in a spare lot that you can see from this google page.

read more at the post gazette: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08318/927688-100.stm