Well said! Now I'm gonna scroll up to the top and continue to fruitlessly look for a Google+ "+1" button... ;)

@Ali Khalid If you look at the original encoded bpk.dat you will notice that every other byte is already 0x00 (mostly). Unicode takes 2 bytes per character but for most English character sets the high order byte is always 0x00. In order to keep the decoded output somewhat readable Rodel left them alone (XOR 0x00) during decoding so that in the right hand part of the decoded output they remain spaces rather than junk. Note that there are a lot of intricacies to Unicode. I've grossly oversimplified here but I think that should explain it.

Another cool option instead of stick on labels is hangtags on the bottles. Props to Revvy over at HomeBrewTalk.com http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f46/wine-beer-bottle-hanging-tags-93201/

No offense to Geoff but that carbonation lid will not use less CO2 than just putting on head pressure. Once the liquid reaches the saturation point for the current temperature/pressure no more CO2 gets used either way. What the lid IS good for is carbonating faster. But IMHO faster is not necessarily better, green beer is still green beer.