Saturday, April 14, 2007

133t 5p34|< (Leet Speak)

I dont usually consider myself a geek..........but like everyone I'd like to be considered geeky once in a while ;)
So I am learning 133t 5p34< ......ok..........I know it looks like some egyptian epitaph ....but its actually english......."Leet Speak" to be precise
133t is a "Cipher" used in gamer, hacker, programmers and geek circles. I know most of you who have downloaded software especially opensource stuff have come across this "gibberish" symbols....me too. Up until recently I never made much of it....... but now.......am all crazy about it.

So what exactly is 133t 5p34< ?......this is what wikipedia says "a writing system used primarily on the Internet, but nowadays also in most online video games as well, which uses various combinations of alphanumerics to replace proper letters."

Its relatively straight forward and great fun too....... now I can embbed comments in my lines of code that really express my state of mind lest I offend the code reviewers........muhahaha....evil evil laugh......... so I have been trying out some 133t and I must say I am getting quite "3133t"

7h3 9vi(< 8^o/\n /=0x jvmp5 o\/3^ +h3 _42`/ )09
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

bet u had not figured that out...............pretty cool yes?
Nway to read more about 133t check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet_speak
there is also an alphabet there....which by all means is not finite so u can get abitrarily clever and come up with your own :) .......oh and by the way GooGle has also gone 133t too!!!!

so get cracking and be 3133t ...... like me ;)