The Program

I just made a new webpage, called GrepArt.  It isn’t quite what I had in mind for it originally, but I like how it came out overall.  Check it out!

I got a little bored so I decided to have some more fun with inkscape.  I pulled up my trusty web browser and went over to xkcd.  Found a nice simple comic, and decided I wanted to blow it up.

The result?  A 1680×1050 (or any size for that matter) version of the traveling salesman problem.

Full credit to xkcd, of course.  Here it is! :

So, as I just posted a few hours ago – I discovered Twitter.  After looking for twitter, I began to look for different clients and applications that used the website.  That’s when I stumbled upon (Not referring to the firefox plugin “stumble upon”) twitux.  Well, Twitux is a great program that interfaces with twitter.com.

This thread is not about twitux, though.. it’s about inkscape.  So where does twitux come into play?  It has a terribly ugly icon.  A bright red dragon.  I couldn’t stand it.  It was the best twitter client I could find.. so instead of just not using it, I decided to make my own icon!

That’s where inkscape came into play.  I wanted to make an icon, and inkscape does vector graphics.  After fooling around with it for a bit, I discovered it is quite a powerful program.  I then got developing, and in under 20 minutes, I made an icon that wasn’t so ugly.  I’m quite happy with it, even.  Mind you, I won’t even pretend it’s professional work – but hey.. isn’t anything better than a bright red dragon?

Have a question? Get it answered on my new webpage. Whether it’s about my software, or you have a question about computers in general, post here, and I’ll try my best to give you an answer in 24 hours.

http://www.redgalaxy.net/qa/

The past few days I’ve been developing some Question-Answer (QA) software. Hopefully I’ll use it to answer any questions users of my software might have through public lines. Previously I had used forums for this function, but they were complicated (user had to register, verify email, etc, etc) in order to post. (Plus quite frankly, there were more spam bots posting porn on the page than there were actual user posts with questions). The layout is simple and intuitive, and has been checked for errors by myself and two friends. I hope to have it up tomorrow night.

Yes, try running it. It prints what you think.

#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
char str[128]
int i;
for (i=0; i<12; ++i)
str[i] = 72 + i*29 – (i/2)*22 – (i/3)*29 -
(i/4)*4 – (i/5)*108 + (i/6)*77 +
(i/10)*87 – (i/11)*123 – (0×01 && (i/7))*5 -
(0×01 & ((i/9)*i))*6;
printf(”%s”, str);
return 0;
}