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Scripts and Programs


Below are a few programs and scripts I wrote, mostly to see what the language can do. It is all pretty simple stuff--I'm a tech journalist, not a programmer. Feel free to download any of them, though they come with no guarantees. More to come.



Countdown to Burning Man 2006 (CGI, Bash shell) A CGI script that basically acts as a countdown to a particular date, in this case to Burning Man 2006. But the dates (there are several) can be changed to any other times. It is written in Bash and can be executed from the Unix command line(with the header removed). In its present form, it can be run as a CGI page, if your hosting service offers CGI. If so, take off the "RemoveMeToActivate" suffix (making .cgi the new suffix). Don't forget to change the file permissions.

XML markup for address book (XML) This ZIP file has three files: a DTD file defining XML fields for a home address book, an XML page containing these fields, and a CSS file for basic layout for rendering the XML file as a Web page. One of these days, I might write a Web-based address book using these.

Degree Converter (Visual Basic) A Windows program that takes degrees of angle and converts them into radians and the decimal equivalent.

360 degree panorama of my home office, circa 1997 (Quick Time) Hold the mouse down and drag the cursor around to move the image.







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