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{ 2010 06 09 }

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Believe it or not, you can figure this out on any Unix-like operating system. Should keep you guessing for at least a few minutes. :) 

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Posted by Aaron Toponce on Wednesday, June 9, 2010, at 6:05 am. Filed under Personal. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog. For IM, Email or Microblogs, here is the Shortlink.

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  1. Christian R. using Firefox 3.6.3 on Unknown O.S. | June 9, 2010 at 6:55 am | Permalink

    33 Years Old and Counting

    o/~ You’ve had a birthday, shout hurray! We want to sing to you today. One year older and wiser too. Happy Birthady, to you! o/~

    Happy Birthday from my side!

  2. Martijn using Google Chrome 5.0.375.38 on GNU/Linux 64 bits | June 9, 2010 at 6:56 am | Permalink

    Congratulations :)

  3. goozbach using Firefox 3.6.3 on Mac OS | June 9, 2010 at 6:57 am | Permalink

    Happy birthday!

  4. Joao Trindade using Google Chrome 6.0.428.0 on GNU/Linux | June 9, 2010 at 6:58 am | Permalink

    Hurray! Happy birthday to you!

  5. Pete using Google Chrome 5.0.375.70 on GNU/Linux | June 9, 2010 at 7:30 am | Permalink

    Gotta love base64 -d!

  6. Kirrus using Firefox 3.6.3 on Ubuntu | June 9, 2010 at 7:32 am | Permalink

    Congratulations :)

  7. Antรณnio Pedro using Mozilla Compatible 5.0 on GNU/Linux | June 9, 2010 at 7:39 am | Permalink

    Happy Birthday! :)

  8. Simon using Firefox 3.5.9 on Ubuntu 64 bits | June 9, 2010 at 7:43 am | Permalink

    ๐—›๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐˜† ๐—•๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐——๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ฒ!

    (p.s. match that!)

  9. Mez using Mozilla Compatible 5.0 on GNU/Linux 64 bits | June 9, 2010 at 7:50 am | Permalink

    Kinda scary that I can spot the encoding of this string a mile off.

  10. Mez using Mozilla Compatible 5.0 on GNU/Linux 64 bits | June 9, 2010 at 7:51 am | Permalink

    Oh, and it took all of 5 seconds to figure out ;)

  11. J using Opera 9.80 on Windows XP | June 9, 2010 at 8:02 am | Permalink

    Thank god for cygwin otherwise I would have to get some kind of clickedyclick thing to get the message on this machine!

  12. Martijn using Firefox 3.5.9 on Ubuntu | June 9, 2010 at 8:04 am | Permalink

    I recognized the encoding-format immediately.. Oh well..

    Happy birthday :)

  13. stone1343 using Firefox 3.6.3 on Ubuntu | June 9, 2010 at 11:11 am | Permalink

    For those of us who wouldn’t've gotten it, thanks, Pete!

  14. Heartsbane using Firefox 3.5.9 on Ubuntu 64 bits | June 9, 2010 at 6:17 pm | Permalink

    Happy Birthday Aaron

  15. Will Smith using Firefox 3.6.3 on Ubuntu | June 10, 2010 at 12:12 pm | Permalink

    Good thing Pete gave the hint or I would not have gotten it. Happy birthday though.

  16. Aaron using Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows XP | June 10, 2010 at 1:10 pm | Permalink

    Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes!

  17. Seraphyn using Opera 9.80 on GNU/Linux | June 11, 2010 at 1:30 am | Permalink

    Herzlichen Glรผckwunsch zu Deinem Geburtstag und viel โ™ฃ
    Happy Birthday and i wish you all the โ™ฃ

    Greetings Seraphyn

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