Why is the name of this site spelled funny?

No one has died and the coffee here is actually pretty good. As you see ‘deadlycoffee’ is actually Hexspeak ; DEAD1EC0FFEE is actually 2,448,351,266,773,390 in decimal. If you type this number into your handy scientific calculator and hit the Hex button, you will see what I am talking about. This is of course an almost useless fact which simply muddies the water, or in this case bloodies the coffee. It is difficult to get cool and memorable site names these days, but I lucked out because no one trying to sell coffee would want this one but I am pretty sure no one will have to write it down to remember it.

What this site is really about is computers:

  • Programming, especially in my new favorite language: LISP
  • System Administration, mostly in AIX and a little Linux and Windows