Josh Smith Online

Much of my web experience and blogging information comes to my through Google in one way or another. I currently use Google reader to pour through loads of RSS feeds, Gmail to handle my email, Google Adsense to monetize my writing, and Google Analytics to track my website statistics. While overall the experience [...]

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While catching up on my backlog of CSI I had the pleasure of catching this ad for the 2008 Mercury Mariner Hybrid. In the ad the “star” plants the mercury logo and seconds later out sprouts a tree which becomes a new SUV. The idea is pretty slick and it reminded me of [...]

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Well my 360 has been sputtering, actually beeping over the past few days. It began freezing up more frequently over the past day. Today, I can hardly get 5 minutes of uptime out of it. Thankfully that was enough to transfer my gamesaves to the memory unit I bought tonite.
Tomorrow I’ll be [...]

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We recently had a nasty experience renting from Advantage in San Antonio, TX. I am simply going to attach my letter to the CEO, COO, San Antonio BBB and the Consumerist below.
May 22 2007
George J. Gremse, Chief Executive Officer
6660 First Park Ten Blvd
San Antonio, TX
78213-4307

George Gremse,
I am writing to share my recent [...]

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I had a few minutes today to hop on the Halo 3 Beta.  Wow, the Laser is freakin Awesome.  I cannot describe how fun it is to hit someone who just popped up on a grav lift with the laser.  The game still has a lot of learning for me and I need to look [...]

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We have spent the last 20 hours trying to get our luggage from United. After a ~7 hour stop at O’Hare in Chicago, we finally made it in to Dayton to the realization that our luggage was left in Chicago. After filling out the paperwork we started our trek home with a brief [...]

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Tonite is our last nite in San Antonio, and It has been a blast, thought I definitely have some do’s and don’ts for visiting the city. I’ll be adding those and our “fun” adventure with returning a rental car later this week. For now a few of the photos from tonite’s adventure.

A night [...]

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Unfortunately the Sprint PPC 6800 which was rumored for a may release has been delayed. Reportedly the delay will add WM6 and Rev A EVDO rather than rolling it out via an update later.  Unfortunenatly that means you won’t be seeing this one on Sprint until October.

(Phone News)
Rumor Has it that Verizon will be getting [...]

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This weekend we went to a local pond and I caught this fish.

If you look closer you will see a rubber worm stuck in it’s rear.
A little closer view. click for a higher res shot.

We gave the fish a hand and returned him to the pond. Note, he hit on a real worm so [...]

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So officially they are Kubricks, but they look sweet. 4 of these in various colors including active camo run $18 through an importer such as Comics Infinity. These look pretty slick and would make a fine addition to any office or dorm desk.

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