If it is important enough to you, you will find a way. If it is not, you will find an excuse. -Unknown

If you follow me on twitter (@usrlocal) or facebook you probably already know this little bit of news. But here it is anyway… My wife and I are please to announce that we will be expanding our family this year. We’re expecting our first towards the end of September. Needless to say, we’re pretty excited about it.

So, its been a few days, did you figure out the solution to our first cryptogram? This one I thought was pretty easy if you are a geek. And seeing as my blog is pretty tech related, I figured that a lot of people would get this one. Maybe its just me, but when I see certain encoded lines, I can pretty much guess that they are encoded with base64. Maybe I’ve been around email too long.

So I’m experimenting with a little contest to see how smart my 3 readers actually are. Every couple of weeks I’m going to post a puzzle. They’ll be pretty easy to start off with and get increasingly more difficult as time goes by and I have time. Without further ado, here is the first cryptogram. V2l0aCBmYWl0aCBhbmQgaG9wZSwgdGhlIGRyZWFtIGJlZ2lucyBhbmV3 Good luck! For each cryptogram, the solution will be posted the following Monday. Update: Answers are posted on Wednesday, not Mondays.