Terry Pratchett died today at age 66.

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER.

Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night.

The End.

Web servers enrolled in Pratchett tribute

A long-running tribute to late fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett is being staged with the help of some of the web's servers.

Many administrators have added an entry to the text sent to every visitor that includes the writer's name.

Instructions about how to include it in software for more than a dozen server operating systems are being shared widely online.

The tribute is inspired by a scene in one of the late writer's books.
Unseen code

In the Discworld novel Going Postal, Sir Terry, who died aged 66 on Thursday, wrote about the way that the murder of an operator of a semaphore tower, John Dearheart, was marked by his colleagues.

His name was included in admin messages (known as overhead) sent around the semaphore or "clacks", network prefixed with three control characters, GNU, that kept it circulating forever.

In a similar way, many net server and website administrators are adding the text "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" to the headers their machines share with every computer that requests web pages from themA long-running tribute to late fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett is being staged with the help of some of the web's servers.

Many administrators have added an entry to the text sent to every visitor that includes the writer's name.

Instructions about how to include it in software for more than a dozen server operating systems are being shared widely online.

The tribute is inspired by a scene in one of the late writer's books.
Unseen code

In the Discworld novel Going Postal, Sir Terry, who died aged 66 on Thursday, wrote about the way that the murder of an operator of a semaphore tower, John Dearheart, was marked by his colleagues.

His name was included in admin messages (known as overhead) sent around the semaphore or "clacks", network prefixed with three control characters, GNU, that kept it circulating forever.

In a similar way, many net server and website administrators are adding the text "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett" to the headers their machines share with every computer that requests web pages from them

<IfModule headers_module>
header set X-Clacks-Overhead "GNU Terry Pratchett"
</IfModule>

Terry Pratchett plans to hand over the Discworld series to his daughter Rhianna, he reveals in this week's New Statesman.

In an interview with Laurie Penny - who has returned to the NS as a contributing editor - the author, campaigner and "professional morbid ba[edit]stard" talks about his life and work. They discuss his diagnosis with posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer's, in 2007. Since then, his health has declined markedly