Benign Thoughts

Well, I’m not going to fully blog today. I just have a few things to say. First of all, check out the new LCnet. It’s a list of some of the sites I’ve made or helped with making over the years.

I’ve got 5 gmail invites, so if you think your worthy, include your name and email address in today’s comments. Also, if you can sign up here and also sign up for one of the offers so that I can get an iPod. You don’t have to do it, but it would be nice.

Hopefully, I’ll be getting Google Adsense soon. Don’t worry though, because it won’t be big and it definatly won’t be intrusive. The reason I’m doing this is because I’d like some money to buy a domain, and I’m also saving up for a new harddrive, and this will help.

That’s it! See? I told you it would be a quick blog today.

Hello everyone! Do any of you notice anything different right now? Anyone? Well, In case you didn’t notice yet, things should run a lot faster, because I started using that staticize reloaded plugin today. Now, I’m talking a LOT faster. So far it works very well. The page generation times are also very low right now. They’d be lower if it wasn’t for all the includes that I use (the header and the menu/footer are both seperate from the content).

This is my second post today but the last post doesn’t really count. I’ll say it again though: I need people to sign up through this link so I can get a free iPod. All you have to do is click the link and you’ll be sent to a site where you sign up, then you sign up for a second program. Just make sure you leave my refferal ID in with the URL. It doesn’t hurt, but it’ll help me to get a free iPod. If you decide to, you can get one too by simply doing the same thing. Once you sign up and complete one of the offers, you refer 5 other people, and once they all sign up, they send you an iPod. Cool eh? I don’t know if it works, but there was an article on Wired that I read a while ago that said that it did work, and how it works.

I got some new affiliates and an email from the guy who created firefox. He apparently saw my entry a while ago yelling at people to get firefox, and he wanted me to put a get-firefox button on this page. Well, if you’re viewing this in IE, you’ll see that right above this post, there’s a huge button right there. He apparently didn’t notice that. Well, now I also have a button in my sidebar. Anyway, the 2 new affiliates are “Dusty Dreams” and “Liam Rocks” (someone has a big ego…). Both are rather good, so check them out :-).

Now, here’s an update on me and my Perl: I need suggestions on what to make as my first “real” program. I made several programs so far, but I think I’m almost ready to make one that people other than me will actually use, so I need suggestions. I’m thinking maybe a brute-forcer or something. Not to actually be used for hacking or anything, just to see if I can do it. I need a challenge, so if anyone has any ideas, email me via my contact form, or just leave a comment

Has anybody seen this thing? It’s the Sony Viao U-series. Apparently it’s only 1.2 pounds. It’s sort of a laptop, but without the keyboard, which is seperate. It’s got a little stick thing that you use to navigate the screen. The only problem I see with it, is that it uses *gasp* windoze. Just install Knoppix or something on it and it would be perfect ;).

That’s all for today! Once again, I might add more later. It all depends. Don’t forget to vote for me using the links under the “listed” section of the sidebar. The my-fault one isn’t a vote link, but the createblog and wordpress ones are. Thanks!

If any of you feel like getting a free iPod (I heard it works), or if you just want to help me get one, please, click this link, sign up there, and complete one of the offers. I need 5 people to sign up there in order for me to get a free iPod. It’s really the only way I can get one, because I don’t have a paypal account or anything for people to donate to, so if I’ve helped you in any way, please sign up there. Thanks.

My normal entry will come later

Hello, World! Hehe. I’m learning perl and I just felt like saying that. Anyway, this intro is going to be like every other intro. Today I hope to cover why I’m learning Perl and what my first few programs were. Ok, well, I’m gonna start.

It all started yesterday at the library. I was looking for a book on Linux, and I never found it (I wanted to learn how to make my own distro). Anyway, nearby were some Perl books, so I took the Llama book (Learning Perl) and started reading it. I’ve always been curious about Perl, so I decided to take it out from the library (along with a book about SQL and advanced PHP).

Today was when I really started with Perl. I feel like I’m going pretty fast, since I started at about 3:00 PM, and now, at 8:00 PM, I already made 3 simple programs. I started with “Hello, World”, and now I made a little “Greeter” that asks you what your name is. It then says “Hello there, yourname” just replace yourname with yourname. Well, I put some names in there to start. For instance, if you’re Chris, it’ll insult you and call you an asshole, if you’re Bobby, it’ll point out that you need a new layout, and if you’re Louis, it’ll be struck with awe, because I am the bestest person in the universe. My in-between program was just a little something that calculates some junk. It’s basically a little math tester script. It’s also how I learned how to use variables in Perl (not as different from PHP as I thought).

Now, you may want to know why I decided to learn Perl. Well, other than the facts listed above (in the paragraph before the last one you just read), It’s REALLY quick. In fact, something written in C is a LOT longer than something written in Perl that does the same thing (It says that right in the book).

Well, when you’re done with the Llama book, what are you going to do? I’m gonna buy the Camel book (Programming Perl), of course, and then I’ll post scripts here for you to download :-D.

Well, that’s it for today! Yeah, today’s blog was very… perly, but who cares? lol, C Ya!

Well, I can finally blog. I had an entry all ready to go, but I restarted and I lost it. Oh well, I still remember all the points I covered, and I’m going to try my best to rewrite it.

Now, I never got to fully explain why I haven’t blogged. I know that I posted why briefly, but I never went into detail. Anyway, I tried to install some video drivers, so I can play OpenGL games. Well, it didn’t quite work, and it totally trashed XFree86. So, I had to figure out what was wrong with it and anything. I tried upgrading a whole bunch of times, but I kept getting errors. Anyway, I had to remove the config file, uninstall XFree, reinstall XFree’s latest version, make a new config file, and while I was doing that, I decided to upgrade GNOME. I also reinstalled some xlibs and junk. Anyway, whatever I did, I did the right thing because here I am now!

You might find this boring, but I went to the beach today. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of it, but it was Robert Moses. Anyway, we did all the normal beach stuff, but we didn’t get to swim much because there were so many tiny jellyfish, but that’s normal in august. So, this is what I was trying to get to: there was this guy (or girl for that matter, or maybe even 2 people, we couldn’t see him/her/them) in a plane doing tricks over the water. Yeah, tricks, as in flipping, twisting, flying upside-down, you name it. I’ve never seen anyone fly upside-down as long as he/she/they did. He/she/they even dove and scared my grandma (she was there) :). Yeah, it was pretty cool.

I’m done for today since it’s nearly 12 and that’s when I like to post my entries. I’ll just post this one now. Bye!

By the way… Please vote for me

I’m gonna work on fixing Linux tomorrow. Sorry for not posting

My computer is messed up (xfree86 doesn’t want to start up), so I’m not gonna blog today. Besides, I’ve got Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. If anyone wants to play, my nickname’s TecFreak.