| Why not, when looking for something, just search where it is instead of searching all the places where it could be? (I'll be making a search engine out of this one.) Leave DifferentTM Go out the window. I used to... sniff packets, but now I only do one pinch at a time. Programming, n. an activity similar to banging one's head against a wall, except with fewer opportunities for reward If builders... built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. Program, n. a magical construction which allows a computer to turn one's input into error messages Gil Amelio sez: 'Businesses succeed with the value that their products bring to customers, not with the hype they generate in the marketplace.' Yeah, that's a good one, Gil. Look at Windblows, for crying out loud! Honestly. News flash! Nabisco buys Microsoft! (or not) |
NOTE: If your computer fills its screen with garbage instead of downloading your file, and you don't read Swahili, just use your browser's contextual menu to tell it to "Save link to disk" or some such thing. TimeThang TimeThang is a network clock synchronizing utility. The full package consists of a server extension (actually a background app), which runs continuously on one computer, a client extension (another background app), which runs on each client machine, and a very pretty Read Me. The main advantage of TimeThang over other similar systems is its tolerance for Stuff That Happens. For instance, while other packages require the server to be turned on before the clients, TimeThang will put up with any power-up order you can think of. If you use TimeThang, please do me the courtesy of paying the shareware fee. Download 25K
 Inspired by an inside joke, Got Tape? was written in a bored fit, after not having coded for many weeks. Amazingly, it works wonderfully, even on huge, small, and multiple monitors. It's the kind of thing that just makes you want to moo out loud! Download 41K
 Have you ever made a huge breakthrough on your Mac, like discovering how to reanimate dead tissue, and wanted to do something really, really loud to celebrate your discovery? Enter Hoohah! This way-cool FKEY allows you to play any sound you throw into the Hoohah! Sounds folder with a few simple keypresses. Hoohah! Download 24K
 The Grinchians is that high-quality plug-in for Ambrosia's hit game, Escape Velocity, that I have been promising for so long. It includes brand new ships, graphics of all kinds, sounds, missions, a few mutually exclusive storylines, and enough other stuff to fill a rhino. Unlike many other plugs, which add "responsibly" to the standard EV universe, my plug includes whoop-ass ships that blast standard ships to atoms with a single pulse of their Grinch Beams. Download 1016K or read the ReadMe online.
Another Escape Velocity (or Escape Velocity Override) plug I wrote, mostly to expedite gameplay while playtesting The Grinchians, Grinch's Mondocheat includes a mission available from the Levo (or Earth, in Override) Mission Computer which pays 2 billion credits (more than a pilot file can hold). It also expands the map widget you can buy to encompass the entire universe.Download Mondocheat for EV (4K) Download Mondocheat for EV Override (4K)
Despite their many wonderful achievements, one glaring omission the authors of Escape Velocity made was the complete lack of any built-in support for flying around in a plunger. I have taken it upon myself to correct this omission. Other fun things this plug adds to the game include the ability to fire Shuttlecraft, Defenders, and yes, even Krestels as projectiles! Yeeeeeehaw! Download 72K
 The annoying thing about the /ban and /mode +b commands in Ircle is that they, by default, apply to the bannee's nickname rather than to his username and domain name. Therefore, the offender can easily circumvent the ban by simply changing his nickname. BanKickNick finally does something about this. Just type /bkn nick reason, and it'll dynamically build its own *!userName@*.last2domainNameFields pattern on the fly, place the ban, and kick the schmuck. Woohoo! No more typing arcane address patterns! Download 6K
This one is a lot like BanKickNick (above), except that it bans the victim's entire host instead of his username@host. Download 5K
The Ircle script to end all Ircle scripts! Just a few of BloodySnork's myriad features include: full (now new and improved) online help, complete customization, gibberish phrases ($gib 4 in your input string becomes zorkingzorkinggreebyowling), and my personal fave, phrase paging. Phrase paging works thusly: you tell BloodySnork what phrases interest you (i.e., your nick, interesting subjects, obscenities), and BloodySnork will make noises and/or speak at you when one of your phrases comes up in the channel text. Of course, BloodySnork also includes all the standard mega-script garbage, like message logging, auto-away, war commands, and CTCP spoofing. This new version fixes a few silly bugs and adds some revisions to the help system. Requires Ircle3.0b10 or later. Mail me with your suggestions! Download 32K or read the Version History online. Grinch Central | Grinchware | Stupidity | Sounds | Pictures | Linkles Send a wooden mallet wrapped in aluminum foil to grinch@psu.edu |
