Lyndon Hood - geek, Wellington
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
New Hood: Lyndon Hood: Real Life Easter Eggs
Computer programmers often leave 'Easter Eggs' in software - special features or surprises that can be revealed by some secret combination of events. Some early Unix systems, for example, responded to the command "make love" with "not war?". More recently, the 1997 version of Excel contained a flight simulator. And then there's the 'Exploding Lara Croft' trick. In honour of the recent holy season, I present the list of little-know local easter eggs.
See... http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00234.htm
Computer programmers often leave 'Easter Eggs' in software - special features or surprises that can be revealed by some secret combination of events. Some early Unix systems, for example, responded to the command "make love" with "not war?". More recently, the 1997 version of Excel contained a flight simulator. And then there's the 'Exploding Lara Croft' trick. In honour of the recent holy season, I present the list of little-know local easter eggs.
See... http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0704/S00234.htm
Labels: computers, easter, nz politics, satire
