more of my past wins

I won desktop wallpaper from buybeauty last year. It was an instant win and on the day I won I got two chances to play the game. The first time I played I got an extra play. I played the game the second time and won, but I did not realize I had won anything until I got an email saying I had won. It was not a huge prize, but any win is good.

Wii points card

I can't remember the order of my wins after the orange julius gift card so I will guess. I won a 2000 wii points card from pringles it was an instant win. I wanted the nintendo wii, but won the points card which is still a great win. I don't have a nintendo wii to use the points card with, but maybe I will win one before it expires.

My second sweepstakes win

My second sweepstakes win came the next day after I won the tony stewant #20 hat. I thought that was pretty amazing to have two instant wins in two days. My second win was a $5 orange julius gift card. This time I slowed down to see if the message said sorry or your a winner. I am glad I did because I had to claim the prize. I claimed my gift card and received it a month or two later.

My first sweepstakes win

The picture above is of my first sweepstakes win. It is a Tony Stewart #20 hat. I won it from an Armor All instant win last year. I thought I had messed up because I thought I saw your a winner and I went to the next sweepstakes I had to do. I thought oh no my first win and now I won't get it because I went to fast and did not wait to see the message.

I tried to go back to see if I could see the winning message again to see if I needed to provide any information, but I could not get back to the page so I thought I screwed up. I thought now when I do instant wins I need to wait and see if the message is sorry or your a winner instead of assuming it would say sorry.

I also read the rules to find out what to do after getting a winning message. I had read the rules when I first entered the sweepstakes, but I entered it for a while before I got the winning message so I could not remember what the rules said to do. In the rules it did not say anything about providing any information, but that did not boost my confidence that I would receive the prize.

There was nothing to worry about because the next day I checked my email and there was a congratulations from armor all. It said what I had won and when I could expect to receive my prize. Then a couple of weeks later I got the hat in the mail. What a great win.

3M instant win

This is a picture of an instant win. This prize is the only prize I won in April of this year. It is a race day credential holder I think. It may not be the largest prize ever, but I am happy to have won it.

It helped me keep my goal of winning a sweepstakes prize every month. I have won every month except for the first month I started entering sweepstakes seriously. I entered a sweepstakes once in a while before that, but it probably was only one or two sweepstakes a year.

Euphoria programming language

Euphoria is another programming language I have tried. This is another programming language I have not programmed in very much. I have only finished a small part of a tutorial that I found on the euphoria website. I did not write much code because the tutorial covers up the entire computer screen and I am lazy so I did not turn the tutorial off and practice what I had just read and then start the tutorial again. I don't know if I want to learn euphoria, but I like the name euphoria.

elastiC programming language

I first read about elastiC in the dictionary of programming languages. I downloaded elastiC and tried it out a little, but not much. I'm not sure what else to write about elastiC other than It would be nice to learn it. I do think one thing is cool about elastiC I could compile it or run it with an interpreter. I hope I got that right. I don't know how many languages I could do that with. I don't know what else to write so I'm done today.

ICI programming language

I have not used the ICI programming language much. Like all the other programming languages I have downloaded I got excited when I first installed it on my computer and then did not use the programming language much after that. I had dreams of reading the ICI manual, but never finished it. I did read some of the manual thought, but not much.

I always think to myself I get excited about a programming language and download the compiler and then realise I have to learn it. That takes me a lot of time. It would be nice if I had the time to learn every programming language, but I don't have the time.

Learning a programming language for the fun of learning a new language. That sounds fun, but I want to make my own programs. I want to get beyond writing hello world to the screen and
become a good programmer and as I have said before make a small program.

Visual Basic programming language

One of the first programming languages I wanted to learn was visual basic, but I found out I had to pay for it so I was disappointed. I learned about sharpDevelope from about.com. I got excited after I learned about sharpDevelope because I could learn VB.net for free. It also is not a big download so that was great also.

I downloaded all the things I need to run sharpDevelope and played around with it a little, but not that much. I don't know why I have not tried to learn how to use it. I think its because there is not that much documentation for sharpDevelope. At least I could not find much documentation. I don't think I want to learn VB.net any more something like squeak is more my style.

Icon programming langauge

Icon is another programming language I have tried. I first read about Icon in the dictionary of programming languages. I downloaded Icon from the website and installed it on my computer, but did not use it much. I probably tried a few lines of code and that was all. I downloaded it and forgot about it.

I don't know much about Icon, but I like that it is free and a small download. I looked at the documentation the comes with Icon and I also looked at the website again and wow it looks like Icon might be fun to learn. So many programming languages so little time to learn them.

NVU continued

Continuing from yesterday I still have the website, but have not updated it at all. I also don't have much content on the website either. After my first attempt to learn xhtml I tried to learn it maybe 1 or 2 more times without much success. The same goes for the website I have tried to do one, but never succeeded. I believe I can learn xhtml, and css if I put in the work to practice it every day.

So recently I have started to try to learn things I have tried to learn before, but never became good at. One of the things I want to accomplish is to put up a website. I don't know what I want it to be about yet. I also want to learn css and maybe even javascript. I also want to lean graphic design so I can make the site look nice.

That brings me to NVU. Although at first I want to use a simple editor like notepad for xhtml and css I think learning nvu would be fun. Although in the past I did not want to lean how to use a program like nvu or dreamweaver or homesite. I thought I should only use notepad for xhtml and css, but a couple of days ago I opened nvu and said this looks like a cool program and I want to lean how to use it so I will.

one more thing. I want to pass the xhtml quiz on about.com web design because I have failed it several times. The first time I failed it I got upset and thought I could never learn xhtml. I probably felt the same way the other times I failed the quiz. I am determined to pass it this time and believe I can with hard work. Practice, practice, practice and hope I pass the quiz.

NVU

NVU is another program I want to learn how to use. One of the first things I wanted to do when I got my computer was to lean html. I did not know about xhtml I only had a book on html 4. I found about.com web design which has tutorials on xhtml. I did not want to learn xhtml right away, I wanted to wait for a few months. I am not sure why I wanted to wait. That was what I wanted to do.

So eventually I did try the the tutorials on about.com. Actually it was an xhtml class I got by email. The xhtml class was where I first leaned that I could get free web hosting so I could put up a website for the class. I learned about frames, tables, linking, lists, images. I think maybe I went to fast because I did not seem to learn the material to well. I did not practice enough .

I put up a website, but it was not to exciting probably because I did not work on it much. I thought I did not have anything interesting to put on the site . I always think I could do html, css, and JavaScript, but why bother I have noting interesting to talk about. So I did not add new things to the website I just let the website sit. To be continued tomorrow.....

Physics

Like math I also want to learn physics. I read it is important for video game programmers to know physics So I downloaded Motion mountain a free physics textbook that I learned about from about.com physics. It took a while to download and once it was finished downloading I was excited, but did not read it much for a while.

Then one day I decided that since I have the book on my computer that I needed to read it. So I started reading and got to page two hundred which took me a while a couple of weeks maybe, but I stopped reading it before I finished the book. I think I tried to read it to fast and did not learning the information like I should have.

I think physics is a fascinating subject much more fascinating than I could ever have imagined. I did not know much about physics before I started the book, but I did learn a little from the small portion of the book I did read. I am not sure I will ever be able to learn physics and that disappoints me, but who knows maybe if I keep trying to read the book I could become good at physics. I sure hope I can learn it.

Python programming language

I know I have talked about Python before, but I want to write some more about it. I have known about python for a few years, but have not used it much. I did not want to learn python because I thought I might not be able to learn it. Maybe I started with a book that was to hard. I think it was for more advanced programmers.

As I have said I want to learn python so I am now excited to learn it. I hope I can learn it so at least I know one programming language well enough to write a small useful program. I also like the fact that I can use it with c which I also hope to learn. I think it would be cool to write a programme using c and python together which I think you can do.