Forget the coworkers.  I plan to use this on my students!<p>I mean this in all seriousness.  It would be a great lesson in encodings if the entire class struggled through a lab for ~20 minutes trying to debug the code.<p>Is it mean?  Maybe, but that interpretation depends on your perspective.  Would it actually serve a highly useful purpose in teaching a lesson better than my lecture ever could?  Absolutely.