This page is home to a few toys and timewasters that I've tossed together, mostly to use as book examples. Enjoy!

The Random Word Spy

Displays random words from the Word Spy database..

The Geek Rater

Find out how you rate on the geek scale.

Mortgage Minder

This is a little application I wrote to use as an example in a book. You can either use the JavaScript version or the VBScript version. (To play with the latter, you'll need either Internet Explorer or Netscape with the NCompass ScriptActive plug-in.)

Payment Prognosticator

This JavaScript applet can calculate the future value of a series of regular deposits to an investment.

Random Sentence Generator

A Java applet that creates nonsensical sentences on-the-fly!

JavaScript Examples

This new page consolidates all of my JavaScript scripts in one handy place.

Image Map Coordinates Via VBScript

A simple VBScript routine that makes it easy to determine image map coordinates with Internet Explorer.