I wrote this simple encryption utility for no purpose in particular. However, if in the future I need to send a secure message it is now possible

Anyone who has seen Robin Hood, Men in Tights, will remember the Sheriff\'s hilarious speech impediment. This simple little script attempts to emulate that

I found myself needing to know my external IP address. Usually whatismyip.com works fine, but I needed a quicker way to find it programmatically. This script simply returns a string representing the IP address my webserver saw from your request. Feel free to script against this. For example, if you have curl installed try

curl http://thom-patterson.com/Toys/IP_Grabber/

Its not that the mental math was hard for me in calculating dart scores, but remembering my score from round to round proved to be too much. A good friend and I wrote this score-keeper very quickly to fill that need. It is for any 301-style game (you enter your own point value). Also, since most of us suck at darts too much to actually hit 0 on the head, I implemented a threshold of zero that constitues a win. There is alot of room for improvement (like an UNDO!), but for now it works. 5 players max