I installed BLR-CAD on my computer

A day or two ago I say a link to a program called BRL-CAD on hacker news. I thought wow a free CAD program, yes now I can use a CAD program. I have no idea what I want to use the program for. I am not even sure what I can make with a CAD program. But I can't resist a free program.

I hope someday I will get around to making at lest on thing with BRL-CAD.

Today a short post about three favorite movies

Today I'll write a little bit about about three of my favorite movies back to the future 1, 2 and 3. I need something to post so I am writing about back to the future.

I loved the Delorean in the back to the future movies. The flying Delorean in back to the future 2 was awsome. The idea of having a vehicle that drives on land and flies in the air is amazing. I'd be like james bond.

Another thing that I liked about the back to the future movies was the time travel. The idea of being able to time travel is fascinating to me. I am not sure where I would want to travel to if time travel were real, maybe to ancient rome, or palo alto research center in the 1970's.

That's something I never thought of doing if I could time travel I could go to great moments in computer history or travel back in time to meet some famous person involved with computers. One person I would want to travel back in time to meet is John Von Newman. To bad I can't travel back in time.

babbling on about making a website

I want to put up a website now more then I ever have in the past even though I still have no idea what type of website I want to create other than to make a personal website, or a blog. I suppose putting up those kinds of websites would be fine, but I already have a blog and my personal life is not that interesting. So I hope I can come up with some different ideas. If I can learn how to design programs and learn some php maybe I can make an interesting site, I don't now.

A few posts ago I wrote about not caring about any of the goals I wrote down. Well I still want to learn xhtml, css, javascript, php, python, blender, gimp, xml, so I can put up a website and make some animations. Maybe I was to hasty in saying I did not care about the goals I set for myself. I'll be back here writing tomorrow.

I got the dvd I won on march 31

Today I received the Out at the wedding DVD I won on march 31. Yes!! I can't think of anything else to write so I'm done for today.

Some day I want to make music

Today I installed LMMS -Linux MultiMedia Studio a program I read about on about.com Linux on my computer. When I first read about LMMS on about.com Linux I thought wow I can use the program to make music for blender animations. I know there are websites where I can get sounds for animations, but I want to make some of my own sounds. Creating sounds for a website would be great also.

I don't know if I will ever be able to make anything with LIMMS, but I will try.

Continued from yesterday

Continuing from yesterday when I talked about the excitement of installing a new compiler on my computer. A few weeks ago I went to the open directory website and found a link to a PDF called Lua - First steps in programming. I had a blast doing the examples in the PDF, it felt great. I love try out new programming languages.

Also with lua I want to make a game using Love which I got from hacker news. I'm writing this paragraph to remind myself.

Continuing from the first paragraph maybe instead of limiting myself I should just try whatever programming languages I want to. I like that idea. Maybe I will be able to make a useful program maybe I won't, but as long as I have fun it does not mater.

More sensless talk

Continuing from yesterday when I talked about trying a bunch of programming languages and not mastering any of them. One reason I do that is because I read about other people who know a couple of languages and think I should know a bunch of them also.

Another reason is, to me experimenting with new languages is fun. There is nothing like the feeling I get when I write my first hello world program in a language I have never used before, but I get frustrated that I don't know any language that well. I need to realize it's OK if I am not fluent in ten or more programming languages. I can't learn every programming language I want to, darn. That all for today see you tomorrow.

Not much to write today

As I have said on this blog before I want to become a programmer who makes a program that does something useful. One reason I have not achieved this goal is that I keep trying a bunch of different programming languages and not mastering any of them.

I think if I had stuck to one programming language and learned it instead of trying a bunch of different languages I might be able to make a small program by now. Instead I keep switching programming languages, So all I end up doing is learning a little bit about each language and not mastering it.

So I want to try and stick to one or two programming languages and learn them. I can always switch later if I don't like the languages I pick.

I am closing my poll - how many sweepstakes do you

I am closing my poll - How many sweepstakes do you enter daily? Before I get to the results I would like to thank everyone for the overwhelming response, three votes. That's three more votes then I thought the poll would ever get. Now on to the results:

I don't enter sweepstakes got two votes, zero to one hundred got no votes, one hundred to two hundred also got no votes, two hundred to three hundred got one vote, three hundred fifty to four hundred got no votes, and four hundred plus got no votes.

Thanks for voting.

Sweepstakes win for march

Wow it's the end of march already. I won one sweepstakes prize this month. I received an email today saying I had won Out at the wedding on DVD. I am happy to get the win because the last win I had was on February 10. I hope I win a prize next month.

I insalled appserv today

Today I installed Appserv on my computer so I can practice using php and mysql. I followed the instructions from an about.com web design article to install the program.

What I am learing now

Today I'll write another post about programming. I have finished reading through the xhtml class lessons from about.com. That makes at least three or four times I have read through the class lessons in the past year. In the past after I have gone through the class I have stopped practicing xhtml not long after, so I end up having to lean xhtml all over again. This time I want to keep practicing xhtml ever day so I don't forget it.

Now I want to learn css and javascript so I am working through the javascript and css classes from about.com.

I tried scratch today

I wrote a post about scratch in December. So anyway I installed scratch on my computer and then I read the getting started guide from the scratch website so I could make a project with scratch. I was able to complete the small project in the guide. Yes!! I thought scratch was fun, similar to putting together lego's. This post is over, see you tomorrow.

A riveting post about compiling my first Ada program

A riveting post about compiling my first Ada program. About two weeks ago I decided I wanted to write a hello world program in the Ada computer programming language. I already had mingw installed on my computer so all I needed to install was gnat, the Ada compiler.

So I installed gnat on my computer and then went to the Ada programming wikibook and copied the hello world program. I saved the file and tried to compile the program, it would not compile. I got a message saying the Ada compiler was not installed on my computer at the command prompt. So I thought I am sure I installed the Ada compiler what do I do now.

I decided to reinstall mingw and the gnat compiler which I did, but after the reinstall I still got the message that the Ada compiler was not installed on my computer, I was not feeling to good at this point. It took me a while, but I figured out that I needed to set the path manually at the command prompt.

After getting the path set right I need to figure out what command to give the compiler to have it make an executable because compile did not make an executable. I used compile and then after the program was compiled I tried the command link, but that did not work. Then I tried make and what do you know it worked. I typed hello at the command prompt and it said hello world.