World Cyber Games 2009

Last week was the Asian Championships of World Cyber Games 2009. We went to Suntec City with fellow DotA addicts to see how the professionals play.


We were just in time for the game between the Philippines and Taiwan. The Philippines won in that game but I heard that they lost against China.


A group of cosplayers were also there to grace the event.

200-Year-Old Encryption Method

I read this article about a 200-year-old encryption method that was finally cracked by a mathematics professor. It's amazing how he found the method to decrypt it. What's more amazing is it took 200 years for someone to decrypt it.

Now that the method is out, I made my own encrypted message. Read the article, understand the method, and decipher the code below. As a clue, this message is the lyrics to the most well-recognized song in the English language (according to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records).

pyaturahurybhtpayar
yopaahurpdbtodpusbr
hadpipdhtoiahyyyhpa
barsopyuyhtoioyyrpd
ordtbabtpaahyyrypdy
oprybtpaiahuarhbpdt
ihyabioyypdbhtoyard
tparyohdyyypdhtpaio

Cipher Key: 26, 42, 35, 19

Have fun! :)