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What's New - Recent Additions and Modifications at this Site
This site undergoes constant revisions, not only additions of new pages and material, but also fixes and improvements. Because of that, only the major changes are listed in the table below.

Of course, there are also the diary type of pages with their more frequent new entries, such as
Wine Diary Lots of new wine notes, many because of great close-out sales
Music Diary CDs and musical events of interest to me. Last updated March 3, 2006, after a long pause.
Observations ... Whether they're personal observations, or musing on the state of the world or U.S. politics, there are new entries from time to time.

Recent Changes:

Chatham Harbor Run
Udpated
7/3/09
Chatham Harbor Run Participated in a 10k road race at age 70, with good results.
Updated
7/3/09
Writings Added a few new pieces of writing some many weeks ago.
Revisions
3/31/08
  I finally updated my Home Page and some links leading from it to reflect changes in activities - there are some new ones, as well as old ones that I'm no longer engaged in.
Revisions
10/20/07
  Comcast decided to offer much more storage space, but also totally changed Personal Web Page (PWP) access. Old features are gone (e.g. visitor counters, support for .mid music files, an editor), and new ones appeared. I'm seeking to maintain my website by editing offline and then downloading files through the ftp application Cyberduck (highly recommended). Fixes will appear when I find out what's no longer working and make corrections.
New
9/7/07
River Cruise 2007
Wildlife in Newton
Harz, Berlin 2006
Set up three Photo Albums, with slide shows, in Google Picasa. They're pictures of two vacation trips, and one of local wildlife (lots of wild turkeys).
Updated
9/7/07
Chardonnay The wine diary finally gets a separate page for chardonnays, given the continued availability of white burgundies in close-out sales.
Updated
1/16/07
Writings January was a good month for adding to Writings, with a few new pieces. It's now been about three years since the first one, and still rewarding to express thoughts through fiction.
Updated
9/13/06
Personal writings Two new items: Added "Great Legs", a true story, and "Oilcan" Butterfly, some personal observations.
Updated
3/22/06
My music Finally updated the piano pieces that I've been learning and playing.
New
3/6/06
Body-Mass Index, Galileo and Kafka Now how could Body-Mass Index, Galileo and Kafka's "Metamorphosis" be related?
Updated
3/6/06
Fruit Tart Yet another fruit tart recipe, this one with red plums, a personal creation that is really good.
Updated
2/13/06
Writings Two new pieces of verse were added to the Writings.
Revisions   With a new Safari browser and a larger display, some of the old formatting needs improvement. Over time, the various pages will be made neater.
Updated
7/12/05
Fruit Tart Two more fruit tart recipes (Mango Lime and Simple Blueberry Tart), as well as general neatening of the tart recipes.
New
7/12/05
Photography A new category, photos with what I hope is a bit of artistic content. To begin with, there are selected photos of the New Zealand 2005 trip, with others to follow.
New
6/11/05
  Personal writings with restricted access. Filling a picture frame leads to the first door.
New
4/22/05
NZ Trip Wines Notes on the 116 wines tasted during our February trip to New Zealand are now complete and linked in.
New
4/7/05
2005 trip to New Zealand Pictures, with comments, of our February trip to New Zealand, a wonderful place to visit.
Updated
4/7/05
Science Olympiad Updated to include the activities and results of the 2005 competition, in my role as one of a number of advisors to the Cambridge Rindge & Latin Science Olympiad team.
New
1/26/05
Recommended Wines An attempt to select out some of the wines that merited special attention, from all those that I've tasted over recent time. Under construction, as the list grows.
Updated
11/21/04
Writings
Reminiscences
With the recent addition of a cycle of verses, "Short Stories" has been renamed to "Writings". Both "Writings" and "Reminiscences" have been moved from "Observations ..." to a separate page. Several new works have been added over the last two months.
Updated
11/21/04
My music Recent updates to the music that I'm learning and playing, and a bit of restructuring of the pages.
New
7/28/04
2004 California trip
Wine Tasting Notes
Pictures of a trip to Northern Sonoma and Berkeley, and wine tasting notes from winery visits and more.
Updated
7/28/04
Naomi's Artwork Naomi's recently updated and revised site for images of her artwork. My contribution was taking the pictures of the paintings.
New
6/24/04
2004 Trip to Germany Pictures, with some comments, of our 2004 trip to the Mosel valley and Berlin are now up and available for viewing.
Updated
5/30/04
German Riesling Updates to the section on Wine Categories based on my learnings during a May 2004 trip to the Mosel valley.
There is also an extra page of notes from wine tasting during the trip, consisting mainly of wines not available in the U.S., at Wine Diary - May 2004: Mosel Trip.
Updated
5/10/04
German Wine Regions There are some errors and omissions in the files that provide names of Grosslagen and Einzellagen in all thirteen German wine regions. I've made corrections for the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer region and provided separate entries by sub-region (Bereich) in a more graceful format.
Updated
5/10/04
Literaturklasse,
Goethe Institut Boston
Das Thema für die Frühlingsklasse ist "Widerstandsliteratur"; die Klassenleiterin hat auch eine "Discussion Group" bei Yahoo gegründet.
New
2/29/04
Bermuda 2004 Pictures of our short trip to Bermuda in Feb. 2004.
New
1/29/04
Short Stories Having participated in a number of classes where we read and analyzed short stories (in German), I thought I'd write a few of my own. This is the start; over time, there may be more.
Updated
12/30/03
Favorite recipes The December holidays being traditionally a time for festive food, I've added a number of recipes, for: some cookies, filled yeast doughnuts, breakfast crepes, and potato pancakes.
Updated
12/18/03
Ruth & Dan Wedding Added a link to the continuous Slide Show assembled for the Rehearsal Dinner; it has pictures of Ruth and Dan from their very youngest days to the present. The Slide Show link follows the Rehearsal Dinner picture set. There are of course also pictures taken on the Wedding Day.
New
12/10/03
Contact I've placed my "calling card" in several of the top-of-the-page menu bars, and will eventually put them in the rest.
New
11/24/03
Anatomy of an Injury or, how I learned about Baker's Cyst, Ultrasound, MRI, Weight-bearing X-ray and Meniscus Tear. A new page linked to Running Tips, describing a knee problem that persisted over three months.
New
11/22/03
High School Tutoring Some time ago, added a page on my experiences as a math and physics tutor at Cambridge Rindge & Latin Science High School.
Updated
11/12/03
Favorite recipes In addition to the long-promised section on Grilling, A Summertime Thing, several new recipes have been added. There's also a new section on ethnic German food.
Updated
11/22/03
Observations ... Observations, Opinions, Odds & Ends:
Extended reminiscences of growing up during the war years in Germany, and as an immigrant to the U.S. - these will continue to expand.
More commentary on politics, peace and war, and other diverse subjects.
Change-over
7/3/03
AT&T to Comcast, as service provider The Personal Web Page base address was changed from home.attbi.com to home.comcast.net.
My home page is now http://home.comcast.net/~schmidtpeter.
The change-over itself was surprisingly smooth. Comcast says that the old AT&T address will work until the end of 2004, but I would advise visitors to these pages to change Bookmarks or Favorites now.
Updated
6/9/03
Favorite recipes Added an excellent recipe for a Baked Lemon Tart to the set of Fruit Tart recipes.
Updated
6/5/03
20th-Century Harpsichord Added some new works to the long-promised collection of 20th-century harpsichord music. More to come.
Updated
4/14/03
Observations ... Observations, Opinions, Odds & Ends:
More additions as the war on Iraq continues. The banner on the home page was installed after the last update.
Updated
4/14/03
Home Tidied up presentation on home page to make it less cluttered. Installed banner with message animation. Moved additions, updates, etc., to this "What's New" page.
Updated
4/14/03
Running Tips Added some images as personal mementos. Added some items on road races and marathons, along with some stuff about Chatham, our favorite spot on Cape Cod.
New 3/31/03 Science Olympiad My role as one of a number of advisors to the Cambridge Rindge & Latin Science Olympiad team.
New 2/4/03 Undine in Musik Undine: Literatur und Musik - ein Beispiel

Old News Flashes:
     (May 7, 2003): Received a Mack Davis award for high school volunteer service
     (April 7, 2003): Daughter Ruth married Daniel Toft in a very moving self-designed ceremony -
                 Picture of couple and parents
     (April 22, 2003): Became a proud co-inventor on Patent No. 6,552,783




Updated 7/3/09


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