Scrambled Word of the Day
Having the past few nights relatively free, I was messing around with some code and came up with a nifty little script. I have been looking for something interesting to code and after stumbling upon this factoid I decided upon a "Word of the Day" feature, with a twist.
Originally the message of the day feature I wrote was going to be a word of the day. But I decided to go more along the lines of the UNIX fortune. I mean that is certainly more entertaining than a random word from the dictionary.
I also recently bought Wicked Cool Shell Scripts by Dave Taylor and at the back of the book he actually included a little scrambled word shell script. Great book with tons of useful scripts for Mac OS X, Linux or UNIX(AIX in my case). By the way, just incase you were wondering, yes I got a lot more out of the book than a scrambled word script idea. I read Dave Taylor's other book, Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours about 4 years ago or so when I was just starting to administer AIX Servers and loved Dave's approach for making what would seem boring entertaining.
Anyway, all of the above kind of started me thinking and I threw together a PHP script that provides a word of the day, scrambled. But fear not, a clue is given for each word. If you are unable to guess the word, comeback the following day and the previous days word is revealed. All guessed words or revealed words are linked to their definition.
So what do you think? A good way to fire up the brain cells each day as well as add to your vocabulary. Also if anyone would like to ever submit an idea for a message of the day or a scrambled word of the day, just use the Contact Scott button and let me hear your ideas.
