Peter's Place

I really don't know what all the fuss is about. I think that if one is going to make a resolution, one shouldn't have to wait until the New Year to do so. But as is custom and tradition, far be it from me to go against the grain (actually, it wouldn't be far from me to do so but, I digress....). So keeping in mind that I find the entire notion of resolutions for the coming New Year to be ridiculous and out of place, especially considering the abysmal failure rate in keeping one's new year's resolutions (maybe more people should read some articles on how to keep your new year's resolutions ), here are my resolutions for the coming 2008 New Year: Eat more and Weigh less Shop more and Spend less Earn more and Work less Compute more and use less Energy Be more tolerant of Intolerance Start, then Quit Smoking Stop to Smell The Roses, then Cut and Sell them Get Drunk but don't get a hangover Help Others more but Give Less to them Keep Everything but Throw Out t...

Little Love Among Matchmakers - New York Times It's amazing the sort of news that one can find in those "non-essential news sections" of the newspaper, e.g., Lifestyles, Culture, Theatre, Travel, Technology, Business, etc. I usually tend to avoid the "regular" sections of the newspaper, e.g., local, national, and world news, as all too often these days, the stories are just too depressing. For instance, the last time I dared venture a look at the regular news section, the first article I came across was about the teenager who shot and killed nine people and then himself at a mall in Omaha, Nebraska. I mean, who can deal with this kind of information shoved into your face when all you're trying to do is keep abreast of current world events? It just makes my depression dovetail. So with that in mind, I pretty much stick to the relatively less sensational and more boring sections of the paper, such as the Business, Technology, Life, Culture, Travel, and other ...

The New York Times just sent an interesting article to my Inbox. Here's a paragraph from the article that, I believe, explains fairly well its gravamen: The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both companies, and also inform how consumers and corporations work, shop, communicate and go about their digital lives. Google sees all of this happening on remote servers in faraway data centers, accessible over the Web by an array of wired and wireless devices — a setup known as cloud computing. Microsoft sees a Web future as well, but one whose center of gravity remains firmly tethered to its desktop PC software. Therein lies the conflict. There have been a number of articles online about the growing battle between Microsoft and Google--David (Google) taking on Goliath Microsoft). One of the odd things about this analogy is that Google is described as being a David when it...

Gmail ( Google 's free web-based email service that offers tons of storage ) has just introduced AIM integration into its chat feature. Provided that you're able to access Gmail with chat enabled (at the bottom of your Gmail screen, make sure you're using the Standard view), users can now sign into AOL Instant Messenger and chat with all of their AIM buddies right from within their Gmail window. This is totally awesome news for me. I no longer have to launch AIM just to chat with a few people who I haven't convinced to use Gmail (stubborn, they are at that!). And this means that I'll basically havce another 75kb or so of free memory to run other applicatoins on my system. The only hitch, and it's a very small one at that, is that you'll need to have an AIM account separately from Gmail in order to use this new feature. If you're an old AOL user or you have an AIM account, that's great; if not, just go over to AOL Instant Messenger and create one-...

It is said that music truly is the universal language; perhaps there is truth to this statement because music is both mathematical (and we all know math to be a universal language) and emotional at the same time. Case in point: I was listening a new station on Pandora.com (clicking on this link brings you to my profile page on Pandora). Pandora is the free Internet radio service where you can create your own station by naming just one/song artist, and Pandora will use the Music Genome Project to discover related works that it think you might like, you can vote individuals songs and artists into/out of your stations, you can create an unlimited number of stations, you can share your stations with your friends and the rest of the world, you can see who else is listening to any particular song/artist at the moment, you can get information about the currently playing song/artist/album with one simple click, while Pandora goes about playing new content it thinks you might like, you can p...

I'm really about to blow my gasket. I mean, after everything that I've gone through over the past month with having to straighten out my financial accounts (which, to this date, still aren't straightened out but at least they're on the way toward getting there now), I almost had a stroke when I received an email alert from my bank, letting me know that my account had gone below zero. WHAT???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is getting to be quite ridiculous. My bank account is less than two weeks old, as I had to open a new account with my bank (which, thankfully, they were able to do for me even though I have no identification because they had all of my ID on file already and were able to confirm my identity through my ID on file and also by asking me questions that only I would be able to answer) as my old account has been frozen due to fraudulent activity on it that Louie Rivera committed while I was in the hospital this past October/November and all of my possession were left...

Wow, this is something I really wasn't expecting, nor did I know about. My good friend, Stacey , must be totally wet by now. I'm going to have to get her a bib for all the drooling she's done over Jodi in her life. But I would like to respond to some of the comments in the article: Jodie Foster comes out... finally - Times Online “It is her life to live as she pleases. Why do so many gays worry about who is and who is not gay?” asked one reader. The reasons that so many gars worry about who is and who is not gay are, I believe, We like to know that we might have a chance withe the people we're fantasizing about When people come out, it helps erode the hatred and prejudice in the form of homophobia. Most people who are homophobic either themselves are gay or they just don't know any better. For those who don't know any better, and I know I'm making sweeping generalizations here but for the most part, they're accurate, these are the types of people who wa...

OK, a bunch of things for this post. And I know it's been a while, except for those few posts that I was able to send from my mobile phone. And why, one might ask, was I posted text to my blog from my mobile phone instead of my computer? Well, this three-part article that I just posted on the social networking site Gather.com might explain things. I'm really beginning to like Gather. It's a social networking site that combines the functions and features of blogging into the more traditional social networking sites, like Google's own Orkut ( view my profile there ), all the while incorporating a rewards program similar to that of MyPoints.com . Essentially, You can find out all about Gather, and how it rewards users for participating, from their FAQ page. And if you think Gather sounds interesting and you'd like to check it out, please use my personal invitation link to join; I get points when people sign up to Gather using my invite link. And points can be turne...

[Updated 13 December 2007 to clean up some of the crap that my mobile phone sent when I published this] I'm sending this from my phone and can't tell if the link to the article i just posted on gather.com is showing up but i'm working under the assumption that it's there. if you can't get to the article please let me know. thanks. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hi there, Peter (needs a new laptop) C. Frank sent you an article. My Brother, by Peter (needs a new laptop) C. Frank Ok i'm kind of freaking out right now. my mom called and left me a message that my brother was in an accident and someone died and i tracked him down to the right hospital but they're not releasing . . . View this article here: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977192733 -- Gather is a place to connect with people who share your passions. Let your unique voice shine through the articles, images, reviews, or audio you publish. We'll even compensa...