Category: John Otter news

Just saw something on tv the other night with the CEO of Google discussing its operations and developments. I like the company more now. If you go from the Google main page to see “more…” and then go into the “Labs” section you can try out their new products. I’m trying out the “Personalize Homepage” and its nice, if you have a Gmail account you can see your new messages as well as weather, quotes, news, etc. Maybe you don’t need a Gmail account to use the personalized homepage, but you do need to log in. Another google thing that’s pretty cool are the new maps where satellite images are used – doesn’t look like enough detail to get anyone in trouble, but I just found a couple pools I didn’t know existed.

Family weekend coming to an end

Petroglyphs at the Southwest Museum

x-mas lights lighting a dark stairway in a warehouse downtown L.A. – 3:55am. I think the camera phone captured what it looked like through my blurry eyes

earlier today I wandered into a Staples to see if they had speaker wire (which they didn’t) and the PDA’s caught my eye. I have one that works alright, but the compatibility between a Dell and a Mac isn’t the best, and when everything is upgraded to 10.4 the third party software that had made syncing possible will require an upgrade that I’m not sure I’ll willing to pay for…but the new Palm Pilots – wow, I hadn’t looked at them in awhile and the Palm Lifedrive is pretty tempting (4 gigs of memory, Bluetooth/Wi-Fi & 416 Mhz XScale processor!?!?)-almost bought it but had to be more rational, I’ll save up for it. The rationality that hit me was that I’ve almost paid off the long-standing and often nasty credit card debts that I racked up in Chicago and New York…hoping to have them completely paid off by the end of summer, maybe sooner – which is great because my student loans came due a month or so ago and now I’m throwing money at them (but not half as much as even one of the card’s debt).