Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical headman. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office. a government job?īy all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into. The 33rd installment in acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a splendid send-up of government, the postal system, and everything that lies in between. Inspired by this reddit post, boingboing’s report, and the GNU Terry Pratchett website.Ĭontributions welcome at the GitHub repo.“ books are almost always better than they have to be, and Going Postal is no exception, full of nimble wordplay, devious plotting and outrageous situations, but always grounded in an astute understanding of human nature.” - San Francisco Chronicle The Clacks Overhead plugin for Chrome and the GNU Terry Pratchett extension for Firefox both light up when they detect the HTML meta tag or HTTP header. You can check that the meta tag is visible by viewing your site’s HTML source and searching for “GNU Terry Pratchett”. To send the HTTP header and continue to use a caching plugin, add the header at the server level. Note that the HTTP header is not sent if you use a page caching plugin. With the Clacks Overhead Chrome plugin or the GNU Terry Pratchett Firefox extension.There are several ways to check that the HTTP header is appearing for your site: This option lets you honor other people you would like to remember by making them a small part of your site’s content forever. The text sent in HTTP headers and meta tags is “GNU Terry Pratchett” by default.Ĭhange this by visiting Settings → GNU Terry Pratchett in your WordPress admin area and editing the “X-Clacks-Overhead header” field. As a meta tag in your HTML with the http-equiv attribute.As an HTTP header (if you don’t use a WordPress page caching plugin).The plugin adds the GNU Terry Pratchett header in two ways: This plugin makes it easy for WordPress users to do the same for Terry Pratchett, without having to modify their server configuration. In Pratchett’s “Going Postal”, workers who die in the line of duty have their names transmitted up and down the Discworld’s telegraph system as a tribute. The GNU Terry Pratchett plugin transmits an “X-Clacks-Overhead” header reading, “GNU Terry Pratchett” so that Terry’s name is whispered forevermore in the Internet’s “overhead”.
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