I often find myself with the need to generate paragraphs of text for testing purposes. It's helpful to see how my code will handle paragraphs and long text. Are my fields long enough? Do I need to change from varchar to text? I could just set and pound on the keyboard randomly until I've reached the desired number of characters. That can be time consuming and I'm pretty lazy.

SOLUTION: This neat little web page that will generate test text for me:

http://www.duckisland.com/greekmachine.asp