Tuesday, April 1st, 2008


This made my day. If you do not understand why, then you’re obviously not very far in Computer Science or in Computer Science at all.

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Basically, I passed a pointer to a function and asked another function to read me back that pointer. Instead of a segmentation fault, I got whatever bits of memory were still in that pointer. I lol’d. APRIL FOOLS APPARENTLY.

If you guys are reading this, then you figured out the secret hidden on the page.

Maybe “DREAMCAST” was a little too obvious, but it was all in good fun.

Yes, I realize that none of the links work correctly. just use “http://www.bladenforce.com/wordpress/” instead of just the http://www.bladenforce.com/ when writing URLs. Full functionality will be restored when the prank runs out.

I’ve got a permanent link to the April Fools Day page,

http://www.bladenforce.com/april/08/