Here’s one more really odd thing that you might consider doing when you’re finished setting up your 100+ new servers and troubleshooting problems that have stumped all the techies in the nearby vicinity – displaying text messages upside down. And if sheer entertainment is not enough of a reason, consider that the exercise might motivate you to think more deeply about the mysterious nature of character encoding systems. Yes, we’re going to turn phrases upside down — not by flipping our monitors — but by exchanging the usual characters that we see with their closest upside down equivalents – and then by presenting them on the screen in the reverse order.

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