Josh Smith Online

Mobile Technology, How To Guides, Consumer Advocacy and Web-Tech

Josh Smith Online header image 4

Entries from August 2007

Where In The World Is South Carolina?

August 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment

In case you haven’t caught the latest Internet running joke, Miss Teen South Carolina’s answer regarding the mapping abilities of US Americans, you should watch it.  Go ahead I’ll wait.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

Today’s Joy of Tech, had a great take on the subject, in fact a genius take on it.

Head over to Joy of Tech for the punchline…BaaaZING
The [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Humor · comic

Im Not There, A Dylan Movie

August 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I just found this trailer for a new movie about Bob Dylan, in which numerous actors appear to play Dylan in a variety of stories.  The trailer depicts stories which range from true through exaggeration and into falsehood.   I am looking forward to checking this out, it make take some convincing to get Amber [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Movies · Music

HD DVD Wins the Format War…On Facebook!

August 27th, 2007 · No Comments

The latest Poll that facebook listed in my sidebar declares that HD DVD has beat Blu-Ray in the format war at 64% HD-DVD to 36% Blu-Ray.

The responses though not necessarily scientific are interesting. I enjoyed looking at the breakdown by Gender and Age Range.

If you want to check out the Poll of 1,000 [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Movies · Tech

Bugsy the Skydiving Pug

August 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

I found the following video on BoingBoing, of some guy skydiving with his pug!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s2o9BpLTdQ

Hilarious.


[Read more →]

Tags: Humor · Misc.

Findlay Flood Update

August 21st, 2007 · No Comments

The Blanchard river should be cresting in the next hour (10pM) and we’ll have to see what the roads look like tomorrow though I-75 appears to be open now.
Science Fiction Author Tobias Buckell has put together a roundup of Flood coverage for Bluffton Ohio including pictures and videos.
The local newspaper the Courier has some good [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Misc.

And the Rain Came!

August 21st, 2007 · No Comments

I woke up this morning to a soggy Findlay, and after a 40 minute attempt couldn’t make it in to work.  Right now we don’t seem to be in any danger though Bluffton University is apparently underwater in several areas including Shoker and Centennial.
I am planning on spending this unplanned vacation day working on a [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Misc.

Ordered a Bender Ball? You Joined a DVD Club!

August 14th, 2007 · 131 Comments

My wife just got her Bender Ball, which looks nifty and was relatively cheap.
The item description for the package we purchased fails to mention a DVD subscription price of 19.99 plus 3.99 shipping.

Even when you view the “See What’s In the Complete Kit” page the 30 Day subscription isn’t mentioned.
It isn’t until you get to [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Customer Service · Rant

Thinking of a Re-design

August 9th, 2007 · No Comments

I have been mulling over returning to a three column format in the near future if I can scrape together the time to reformat. If I do I am thinking I would go with the 3 column Cutline theme, an updated version of the site you see now. My main motivations are the [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Tech

Best Commercial EVAR!

August 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Today I found this great commercial through Dethroner and I had to share it with you. If all commercials were this good I would probably A. spend more time watching them, and B. buy more skittles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue3d5xUQr0I

If you are reading this in a feed reader the video may not show inline, hit the read link [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Humor

Official Iphone Tool!

August 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

If you have had the misfortune of needing to send your iPhone in for srervice already you may have had it come back with a “Official iPhone Tool” I cannot believe the official version of this isn’t white! I could understand Belkin’s version being gray but the Apple one. This is is [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: At&t · Humor · Phone PDA