Favorite website ars technia

I saw the name of the website ars technica in a new york times article so I put the name into a search engine and went to the website. So anyway the other day I read an interview ars technica had of Tim Sweeney. I saw the title of the article and could not wait to read it even though I had never heard the name Time Sweeney before.

Reading the article I wished I knew more about graphics and OpenGL so I could understand more of what Tim Sweeney was talking about in the interview. Even thought I did not understand everything in the article it was fun to read and made me think what fun it is to be a computer programmer. I certainly learned a few things from reading the interview.

candy

I don't eat candy anymore, well I eat it once in a while. A few years ago I used to eat candy every day. I am tring to eat healthier for my computer because after all without me my computer would get lonely.

My favorite Candy's were Carmel's or tootsie rolls I would start eating them and I could finish a whole bag in one sitting, I did not do that very often thought. I started eating and I could not stop.

I also liked skittles and I could eat a lot of those in one sitting too. My favorite kind of skittles were tropical, the ones in the blue bag, they were so good. I also liked the skittles in the green bag I don't know what they were called, but they were sure tart. I loved taking a handful and putting it in my mouth and wow that would get me awake.

Besides candy I also liked soda. I got up to drinking 3 cans a day, but I don't drink soda anymore either. My favorite kind of soda was coca cola classic which tasted great, but mostly I would drink the the cheapest soda brands.

Artweaver/graphic software

Last night I was reading Lifehacker in my RSS reader and I saw an article about Artweaver a photo editing program like gimp or photoshop. I got very excited as I was reading the article because Artweaver seemed pretty cool.

I did not have time to look at the Artweaver website last night so I thought maybe I should not get so excited because the program might be to large for me to download, but the program is not a large download so I did not need to worry.

Reading the article made me excited as I said, but it also made me think why am I so excited I only use gimp to crop and scale photographs for this blog and nothing else so I don't need another photo editing program.

What I am tring to say is I have not made any cool graphics for my bog or website with a photo editing program. My problem with photo editors is the same problem I have with programming langauges I have used them for awhile, but I have not created anthing interesting using either a programming language or a photo editing program/graphics programs. So I think I should set some goals for photo editing/grahics software:

1.Do some tutorials instead of only reading the documentation

2.create some cool graphics for my blog and website

3.practice, practice, practice

4.have fun learning

Make magazine's blog, 8080 computer

I enjoy reading Make magazine's blog. Yesterday I was looking at my RSS feeds and make magazine had a link to a website showing an 8080 computer someone made. I thought someone building an 8080 computer how cool.

I have only had one computer and it was already built when I got it, but I have always thought maybe someday I'd like to build a computer. I don't know if I'd buy all the parts separately or get a computer kit to build, but knowing I had put the computer together with my own hands would be a great feeling as well as a learning experience.

I don't know if I would be able to build an 8080 computer like the one on the website because I've never built any electronic gadget and I am not sure I have the Patience to build a project like that or the knowledge.

one of the things I think would be cool about building a computer like the 8080 computer is that after finishing it I could write programs for it using some computer language like C, basic, or assembly or some other programming language. I like old computers and would love to program using one someday.

Past win feburary 2008

The pictures are of a DSRL training kit. The kit was an instant win from Nabisco. The kit contains a headband, shirt, two cups, and a DSRL membership card. The stuff in the kit is almost to nice to wear.

The kit is my second biggest win and my biggest instant win. A wonderful prize.

It's been a year since I started sweeping

It's been over a year since I started sweeping. I can't remember the exact reason why I started sweeping, but I have done better at sweeping than I would have ever imagined because when I first started entering sweepstakes I thought I would never win a prize or would not win very many prizes, but here I am a year later after winning 9 prizes last year and about 30 this year.

My goals for sweeping are:

1. Keep entering sweepstakes every day.


2. Stay positive even when I am not winning very much.


3. Have fun entering.


4. Retire to my own private island after having won millions of dollars in sweepstakes prizes.


5. Have a book published about my sweepstakes exploits and sell the movie rights.

SciTE editor

I leaned of SciTE when I downloaded ruby for the first time. I have used SciTE for a while, but only for writing java and other programming languages source code. I like it for writing souce code because it has line numbers and it highlights keywords.

I have always used notepad to write html, but recently I stated using SciTE to write html. I wish I had stated using SciTE to write xhtml sooner. I like the fact that the xhtml is highlighted and I can open tabs and have many html documents open at the same time. Also with SciTE I can tell if I make a mistake spelling an xhtml element or attribute name.

SciTE came in very handy a few days ago when I was writing xhtml frames. Opening multiple frames allowed me to have the names of the frames right in front of me so I would not make a mistake and write the wrong names in the frame container page.

J programming language

A programming language that I forgot to mention is the j programming language. I downloaded and installed the j compiler on my computer and probably wrote a few lines of code in j and that was it. I have not used the j compiler much at all.

I downloaded the j compiler because I wanted to try APL, and j was the only APL type language I could find on The freecountry for windows. Why did I want to try APL? I liked the name, A programming language. I also wanted to try APL because it has been around for awhile.

past win march 2008, Bedding set

The picture is a princess enchanted bedding set. I would say it is my third biggest win this year. The bedding set came in a big box. I was very excited when I saw the box because I thought it might be a T.V or some electronic gizmo.

When I grabbed the box I thought this is so light this can't be a T.V. I opened up the big box and the first thing I thought was I won a purse, but then I looked and realized it was a bedding set.

The princess enchanted bedding set was second prize in some sweepstakes I entered, but I am not sure which sweepstakes I won this prize from because I don't think the paper inside the box said who sponsored the sweepstakes.

Winning this prize made me feel great since I had not won any prizes in the month of march, but this win made me feel like I had a winning month. what a great win this was. I forgot to mention that this win was a complete surprise when it arrived at my door one day, I had no idea I had won the bedding set.

Goals for my blog

I think I have written about goals for my blog before, but I want to write some more about my blogging goals. I know I have already written that I want to post to this blog every day and I have done that so far although as I wrote yesterday I wonder how long I will be able to come up with ideas for posts.

I think I should write down my goals so I can read them and know if I am working toward my goals. Another goal I have for my blog is to make it interesting so people will want to read it. I do not think I have achieved this goal. I think most of my blog posts are not interesting, but a least I am posting every day.

Anther goal I have for my blog is to get lots of people to read it. I have not achieved this goal either, but I sure would love it if my blog were popular. I want people to say I don't know what I ever did without sillys blog or I have sillys blog as my home page. Silly we love your blog is something I hope people say some day after I am rich and famous.

My bog topic

I have been thinking about my blog topic because I fear I may not be able to make 365+ posts. I am through with all the programming languages I've tried and my sweepstakes wins are only good for 2 to 3 posts a month so I am panicking.

I want to do a blog about computer programming, or technology in general. But I think I do not know enough about the subject although I do love technology. I would have to read a lot more than I do now. Technology meaning computer programming or computer animation is the only blog topic I can come up with. It is the only thing I know something about. I just don't know enough about the subject. Maybe be doing this blog I will learn more, I hope so.

XML

Another thing I want to learn is xml. I have a book called xml by example and I have read most of it, but I think I tried to read it to fast and I also did not practice xml so I don't know much xml. I think if I practice more I will be able to learn xml. It would be great to know xml because it looks like xml can be used with a lot of programming languages although I am not sure. I hope xml is not to hard to lean.

My first sweepstakes win of october

Today I got my first sweepstakes win this month and it's only October 2. It was an instant win from Hershey's, I won a coupon for a Hershey's product worth about four dollars. It's not a huge win, but it does mean I got at least one win in October. My streak continues yes!!!

Let me be the first to congratulate myself

I want to be the first to congratulate myself on writing a blog post every day for 4 months. I thought I would never make it this long. I wanted to write a blog post every day and I have done it for at least 4 months anyway. horray for me.

I hope I can keep blogging, but I am not sure I will be able to come up with anthing to write. I think I need to do some brainstorming and read more so I can come up with some blog post ideas. I am worried that I will not make my year goal, but I might make it, I will try hard to anyway. I hope I make it, I hope I make it.