From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 25 2001 - 22:41:10 MDT
At 11:11 PM 8/25/01 -0500, Chuck Kuecker wrote:
>>Yes, I
>>wrote the `Douglas Adams' novels, leaving this clue hidden in the text.
>>Anyone doubting this can compare the Hitchhiker books with my other comic
>>novel STRIPED HOLES (which didn't sell nearly as well, oddly enough).
>>DB
>Last I heard, HEX 42 (0x42 for 'C' types) was ASCII for the letter "B".
>"DB" would be 0x44, 0x42...
Obviously I didn't use ASCII or any other binary or higher order code. I
used my handy secret belt buckle decoder, which matches alphas to numerics
in the most brainless possible way: each notch right is another letter
along the alphabet. The only trouble I have with this system is that my
pants fall down while I'm decrypting.
DB
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