Welcome to Gordon Peterson's home page!

December 19, 1998: Voters, remember this date... the day the Conservative Republicans amply demonstrated their scorn for their fraudulent sham of representative government... the day they put their own blatantly partisan politics ahead of the clear will of the constituents they are supposedly in Washington to represent.

December 9, 2000: And then, the Republicans topped themselves by finalizing their partisan coup d'etat... to further confirm their distaste for democracy, our Constitution and the rule of law, justice, and honest elections in America. A truly dark day in the history of our nation. (Just imagine how unbelievably different a nation we would have been living in today if Al Gore, who actually won the 2000 election, had been allowed to take office...!)

Howdy! I hope this Web page and the other ones linked to it will help you to find out a little bit more about me, my interests, my ideas, what I've already done, what I hope to do in the future, and more.

Briefly, I'm a computer programmer and consultant. My background is primarily in Research and Development, working either for computer manufacturers or on a one-off consulting-type basis. I'm single, originally born and raised in the Chicago suburbs but presently living in Dallas, Texas. I've also been fortunate enough to live for a while in several other fascinating places: Champaign-Urbana Illinois (about five years), San Antonio Texas (almost 12 years), and Paris France (almost 9 years).

You might find my proposal for a new kind of personal transportation system, designed to replace the automobile, especially interesting. This sounds like an ambitious project (and it is, I suppose) but it's not really all that outrageous when you consider that I was also the person who designed and wrote the systems software for the world's first commercially successful local area network, back in 1976 and 1977. So in my own little way, I've changed the world before. The next time, I want to make even a more significant change. (grin!)

This page, and the others of my pages (at least) that are linked to it, should (like all Web homepages) be considered a document in work, which will be updated from time to time. So you can expect there to be some areas which are subject to change. But there's already enough here to give you a good idea of what kind of person I am! And until I get around to some day writing an autobiography or something, this is probably the closest thing there will be to it. And isn't that the idea of a homepage, after all?

Comments or Problems?

Again, thanks for visiting. I hope you found some of the stuff here interesting and thought-provoking! I'd appreciate hearing your comments and suggestions. And of course, if you found anything here that didn't work right for you, I'd appreciate knowing about that, too.

For more information on any of the stuff you've found here, please click on the "Sign my Guest Book" link above, or FAX your comments and questions to (1)(801) 705-1996 or (1)(972) 388-0539 (please don't forget to include the necessary information so I can get back to you!). You can also send E-mail to me by clicking on:

Gordon E. Peterson II <gep2@terabites.com>

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This page and all linked contents originating with me are Copyright (C) 1995-2007 by Gordon E. Peterson II, all rights reserved worldwide. This page itself was last revised October 18, 2007 (but note that individual pages linked below this one probably have been revised more recently!).