I had written a little C program a while back for the 19th annual International Obfuscated C Coding contest. Not only did my code not win … it didn’t even warrant an entry in the honorable mentions or anything like that. If you look at the winners and look back at my code, you’ll immediately see why; the winners and the runners-up were much more creative than my effort. Rather than get lost in obscurity, I felt that my entry needed to be published, so it has been given the honor of appearing in my first public blog post.