It seems like my belongings somehow also increased. My CD and books collection looks bigger in quantity in their shelves and my wife collection of vas/dinner plate overcrowded their container. Not to mentioned my kid’s toys that laying around in the floor. I also need to clean all the things that we have put on the attic and garage. Sometimes, it is quite difficult to park our car in the garage since so many things are stuffed inside.
It is not because I am lazy or something, but burden of how to clean the house and everything in it, really makes me wonder why somebody has not came up with some tools that can make life easier for housewives, janitor, or anybody who in charge in cleaning sections.
When it came to my mind, I really can appreciate the hard work done by my wife in the house. She has to do everything in the house: cleaning, ironing, cooking etc and still managed to be kind and give warm smile to all of us all day long.

This experience also thought me to appreciate more on the work my janitor have done in the office. Their works is already hard enough without somebody complaining about things that actually beyond janitor responsibility. It is not uncommon nowadays that employee asked Janitor to do additional works that should belong to employee themselves such as cleaning the employee glass/plate, their desk or even employee computer. I hope more and more people have consciousness to clean their own things.

Amazon’s competing movie streaming service, Amazon Prime, was not affected by the outage. It was working just fine.
Netflix says on its Twitter page that the outage was caused by “some of Amazon’s cloud infrastructure.” Netflix says it was working with Amazon engineers to restore the outage, which a company spokesman told the Wall Street Journal stretched “across the Americas.”

Amazon was experiencing trouble at its infamous East Coast, North Virginia data center, according to its status page. The popular North Virginia data center is implicated in a lot of Amazon outages. Amazon is far-and-away the leader in cloud computing but it doesn’t have the best reputation for uptime.

Interestingly, Amazon recently showcased its partnership with Netflix at is first-ever user conference last month. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, a vocal critic of Amazon Prime, even appeared on stage for a keynote where he said that by the end of 2013, he wants Netflix to be 100% hosted on Amazon’s cloud. He expected Netflix to be the biggest business entirely hosted on AWS apart from Amazon’s own retail operations

For more information on exactly what an ELB is, check out Amazon’s explanation. For status updates from AWS, visit its service health dashboard. Problems are originating in AWS’s US-EAST-1 region. The latest ELB update at 5:49pm PST reads “we continue to work on resolving issues with the Elastic Load Balancing Service in the US-EAST-1 region. Traffic for some ELBs are currently experiencing significant levels of traffic loss.”

This is the latest in a series of high profile Web outages related to Amazon Web Services. In October, issues at AWS affected Reddit, Pinterest, Airbnb, Foursquare, Minecraft and other popular Web sites, while back in May, outages at AWS data centers took down Pinterest, Instagram and Netflix.

The national average gas prices has decreased 19.1 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 1.3 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.
“Even with the seasonal price decline, 2012 is going to yield the highest average gas prices ever paid — January through December — at $3.63 per gallon,” GasBuddy.com reported in a recent press release.
A sampling of local gas prices throughout the North Country shows an average price of $3.76 per gallon.
Currently, only Hawaii has higher average gas prices than New York.

GAS PRICES The Press-Republican conducts an occasional gas price survey. Cadyville Gulf, Cadyville $3.75 $3.69. Dubrey’s Service Station, Plattsburgh $3.99 $3.85. Nice N Easy, Tupper Lake $3.99 $3.79. Port Henry Mobil, Port Henry $3.99 $3.77. Route 11 Mobil, Champlain $3.99 $3.83. Saleem Mobil, Plattsburgh $3.97 $3.77. Saranac Country Store, Saranac NA $3.75. Stewarts Shop, Dannemora NA $3.67.

GasBuddy operates MontanaGasPrices.com and over 250 similar websites that track gasoline prices at over 140,000 gasoline stations in the United States and Canada.

Well, if you want to know the lowest gasoline prices on your neighborhood, you can see gas prices on the internet trough Gas Buddy.

Ryan Freel played for the Reds from 2003 to 2008, and during one three-year stretch had 110 stolen bases. After retiring, Ryan Freel returned to Jacksonville, his hometown, and coached youth players for an organization called Big League Development. Ryan Freel also had a goofy side. “That little midget in my head said, ‘That was a great catch, Ryan.’ Ryan Freel twice was arrested for alcohol-related offenses but said he’d stopped drinking. Brandon Phillips, another of Freel’s teammate with the Reds, tweeted, “Really hurt by his passing. “#RIP?? to my friend & great teammate #RyanFreel!”

Ryan Freel, who grew up in Jacksonville, last played in the majors in 2009 when he played for four organizations. Along his career, Ryan Freel hit .268 with 143 stolen bases in 594 career games, mostly with the Cincinnati Reds.

Olivia Culpo wore a tight navy blue mini-dress with a sequined bodice as she walked on stage for the Miss Universe 2012 competition’s opening number. Olivia Culpo successfully beat out 88 other beauty queens to take the title from Leila Lopes of Angola during the two-hour competition at the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Olivia Culpo was the first Miss USA winner from Rhode Island when she took the national crown in Las Vegas in June.
The Miss Universe pageant was back in Las Vegas this year after being held in Sao Paulo in 2011. The panel of 10 judges included singer Cee Lo Green, “Iron Chef” star Masaharu Morimoto and Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants.

Contestants in the pageant cannot have been married or have children. As the winner of Miss Universe 2012, Olivia Culpo will receive an undisclosed salary, a wardrobe fit for a queen, a limitless supply of beauty products, and an elite apartment in New York City. Well, congratulations for Olivia Culpo to win Miss Universe 2012!

The drug-addict son of Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas has suffered severe injuries, including a broken leg and fingers, after being attacked in prison.

During a 2010 bail hearing, Cameron?s psychiatrist inadvertently revealed that his client had snitched to the police about his drug suppliers, David and Eduardo Escalera, during his original sentencing hearing.

The Niners are as well rounded and complete a team as there is in the National Football League. “We’ve got a huge goal, and that’s to win the Super Bowl,” San Francisco inside linebacker NaVorro Bowman said. Given all that was in play — a swirling rain on a cold night 3,000 miles from home against Brady and Bill Belichick and a poised team that thrives in big games — this might have been the most impressive win by any team all season.
In four consecutive drives, New England Patriots’s offense went touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown while the defense allowed two first downs and 19 yards of offense.

The Niners’ big tight end, Delanie Walker, provided a path up the left sideline, and James raced 62 yards to the New England 38-yard line.

Then wide receiver Michael Crabtree told Kaepernick: “Put the ball up,” so Crabtree could make a play. “We’re a good defense,” Smith said. I feel that way with our team in terms of pressure in big games. I feel good about our team in those big-game situations.”

“We faced adversity,” James said. “Nobody flinched.” “What’s in our control is winning football games.”
Woodhead began the comeback with a 6-yard touchdown run, Brady scored on a 1-yard sneak on the first play of the fourth quarter and then threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Hernandez less than three minutes later. David Akers made it 41-31 with a 28-yard field goal with 1:56 to go, Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 41-yarder for New England with 38 seconds remaining and San Francisco sealed the win when Delanie Walker caught the onside kick.
“We just spotted them 28 points,” Patriots Brady said.

Hate it or love it, that movie is downright hilarious. Like many “gov-related” Tumblrs, it combines the nerdiness of politics with components from current pop-culture zeitgeist to make both funny and relevant jokes about politicians. In the particular case of this Tumblr, it grabs some of my favorite quotes from the movie Mean Girls and combines it with pictures of politicians to make pithy, witty jokes that probably only people in my age demographic would laugh at. The Tumblr itself is the brainchild of Ellie Hall, a former NBC News staffer and prolific Tumblr user.

Well, if you want to know more about tumblr, I suggest you to watch the following video of Tumblr.