So the name changed...

Posted on July 21, 2004 at 3:54 PM

I was trying to decide on a name for the site. That "One part per million" thing was just a Bad Religion song that was playing when I redid the header. It's a good song, but the site has nothing to do with that :) Then I started realizing that the actual original Binary Rock website hasn't been updated in something like two years. Not only that, but it doesn't provide links to any of the other sites on the server, so if someone enters binrock.net they see that interesting but out of date little site and think that's all there is. So I figured it'd make more sense to move this site to the root of the server and just link to the old binrock site along with the rest of the stuff linked from here (like the other photo galleries, etc). That also gives me a good name to work with. Sure, it could be considered cheesy by some, but cheese is delicious, so I don't mind.

So expect the site to move to http://binrock.net/ in a few hours. I'll set up forwarding of course, so that links pointed at the old URL will still work, at least for a month or so. I redid the header to match the new name. I was going to hide the binary representation of the string, "Metal!!" in there, but decided it didn't really fit and to most people would just look like I had just bashed my hand on the number pad a bunch. Only the true nerds would actually get the joke. :) It would have been fun though. In case you're curious, the string is "01001101011001010111010001100001011011000010000100100001". It just takes a simple script to figure it out:

[php]
$string = "Metal!!";
for($i = 0; $i < strlen($string); $i++)
{
$char = substr($string, $i, 1);
$char = ord($char);
$char = decbin($char);
$char = str_pad($char, 8, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
echo($char);
}
?>
[/php]