Party like its 1234567890
So one of my colleagues (thanks Matthew) just sent me this link which is so geeky I just had to blog about it.
Apparently on Friday, February 13th 2009, 23:31:30 GMT the Epoch time count will read “1234567890″ for the first (and last time).
For those of you who don’t know what Epoch time is (shame on you) it is basically a count of the number of seconds since 00:00:00 GMT on January 1, 1970. Computer systems use this mechanism for storing time because they handle nice big integer numbers very efficiently.
Of course when 2038 rolls around we are all going to be in trouble because the count of milliseconds will be too big to store in the space that most computer systems allocate for storing this time count!
By then of course we should all be using at least 64bit systems so it shouldn’t be a problem and we won’t Y2K48 problem (he says smirking).
If you are planning a “1234567890″ party (you are planning a party right?) then this “countdown” would be ideal to project up onto a wall or show on a big screen :)
Happy holidays from Air New Zealand
This animation was put together by a couple of the guys in my team here at Air New Zealand.
Happy Holidays everyone…
Air New Zealand Saves Christmas — cartoon from Photon Studios on Vimeo.
BTW see if you can find the easter egg @ http://www.happyholidaysfromairnz.com there may be something in it for you :)
Windows crashes during Olympics opening ceremony
He he, Just found this article about a blue screen of death (BSOD) during the Olympic opening ceremony on Gizmoda.
Update: Turns out that the giant footstep fireworks were faked ! What a shame, I thought they were one of the best bits of the opening ceremony.
Update: Now it appears that the little singing girl wasn’t singing either !
