Blog of Josh Hall

Typing 2 spaces after a period at the end a sentence is wrong. Maybe “wrong” is too strong, but it’s not right.  Don’t believe me?  Go ask the experts, like the Modern Language Association – http://www.mla.org/style_faq3 It stems back to the old days of typewriters, where each character took up the same “space” as any […]

If the royal family were to be outed tomorrow, for whatever reason, what would their last names be? As of 1917, it seems to be Mountbatten-Windsor, which is pretty much made up any way.  Technically, any of them can chose whatever last name they want.  King George V created the name in the first place. […]

Here’s a picture of what Deirdre’s white iphone 3G used to look like: I won’t get into the discussions, but long story short, she gave me her phone, knowing full well that I was just going to fix it and sell it. So, her screen was cracked, but the LCD was still completely operational.  I […]

after a botched update to some apps, Cydia would not longer launch completely. Cydia would crash when I tried to open it, even after rebooting. First, I got DiskAid from : http://www.digidna.net/products/diskaid Second, connect the iphone to your computer and using DiskAid, remove the numbered and tmp files from /var/lib/dpkg/updates/  – (This may be enough […]

Thanks to Beckie Hollerman for reminding me that today, the first Tuesday of February, should be used to educate ourselves about common misconceptions! Some quick excerpts from the wikipedia page: Nowhere in the Bible is Satan described as ruling over or being in Hell. Throughout the Bible Satan is described as constantly on Earth, and […]

I fixed my xbox 360 at home! thanks so much to llamma.com for the instructions! Step 1: Diagnosis. I had 3 flashing lights on the xbox, the top right one was still dim. This is the Red Ring of Death.  It’s certainly worth asking someone else to borrow their power supply to test your xbox.  […]