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September 21st 2008

I added a new candle section. This will feature some of my more interesting candles. It is written with the jQuery framework.

Encrypted Messaging

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

Rottinghaminator

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

PDF Calendar

I wrote this handy little script that will generate a calendar in PDF format. The front-end was whipped together in a couple of minutes, it is rough but it works. As always, I am happy to honor feedback

Your External IP Address

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/