My Refrigerator

My kitchen is small. My counter space is minuscule. The generous thing to say about my refrigerator is that it is apartment-sized. Don't people who live in apartments need to eat as much as and as frequently as those who live in houses?

As a result, I think about what is in my refrigerator a lot. I plan what I eat around what container needs to be emptied and removed from precious refrigerator real estate.

Today I have vowed not to think about my refrigerator. I have other tasks to perform, other interests to pursue.. Today I will enjoy my patio, work on writing, this blog and documenting the lynx browser.

OT Writing in c++

As well as being a writer and a reader, I prepare documentation for Vinux, a Linux distro for the visually impaired based on Ubuntu. In this community there are many talented people. Storm Dragon is teaching a c++ class via Mangler.

I worked as an applications programmer for eighteen years. I taught myself a little C. Now I am learning to program in c++, compiling and running my own programs on my own computer. It's fun.

I enjoyed programming because it was writing. Instead of writing paragraphs, I wrote blocks of code. I wrote in a structured form and as clearly as possible so that someone else could update my code quickly and easily when necessary.

Now that I am assigned programs to write for class, I am again faced with the necessity of choosing meaningful variable and function names, writing concisely and clearly and learning the correct syntax. Consistency counts just as it counts in pros. A well-chosen variable name is like choosing the right word in a poem.