Hello there, Pals. I think I can safely say that I can say good-bye to starting the thread while at work… (meaning I'll have to start it before or after work) Here I am at 4 p.m. and I haven’t had time to think of anything interesting to post because I’ve been drowning in the sea of tasks. All right, I might be exaggerating a bit but honestly, once I start work, I find it difficult to take a break.

Do you know what else was difficult today? Getting up. I went to bed at the usual time but I couldn’t fall asleep. I don’t sleep well in summer… Although, it’s not that hot now.

Moving on to our fact-finder fragment, have you ever wondered how QR codes work? The were initially used at a Japanese car manufacturing plant to keep track of production lines and vehicle parts. Every tiny square in a QR code is a ‘bit’ of information, representing either a ‘0’ or a ‘1’. Each sequence of eight digits stands for a letter or a number and a QR code can hold 2,500 of there ‘bits’, so a single square has about as much information as can be typed in 300 characters. The big squares in the corner are there so your camera knows where the edges of the QR code are. Leaving the bottom-right one out lets the computer know which way up the pattern should be, since it’s always the bottom right that has no bigger square.

All right, Pals, that’s it from me today, have an easy morning/afternoon/evening/tomorrow morning and eat some cherries, if you can.