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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.

Important message, well done video!

Recently I had a chance to do a little monit foo with a co-worker for a rather interesting project that we will hopefully be sending off into the intertubes.

For one part of this project, I got the chance to get my hands dirty with my old friend monit. Monit, for those that don’t know, is a UNIX system administrators dream.

Here’s a brief run down of what monit can do from the web site:

Now this is a different twist on book advertising. How often do you see a trailer for a book?

If you haven’t had a chance to read their first book, its all online at gettingreal.37signals.com. Its well worth the read.

One of the pioneer’s of modern music. Well worth the couple of hours to sit down and take this in.