A Physical Presence for a Virtual Society

All bricks were photographed during Games Time.

The ProgSoc Brick. It contains the domain of this very website!

Located near top-right of Block A17, on the Boral Olympic Dream Pathway.

"Long Live Olympic Games"

The Environs of Block A17 (Stadium Australia eastern stand visible through trees).

The ProgSoc C Function Brick

Designed by Tom Nott

The ProgSoc C Function Brick. It contains K&R C source code of a function called PROGSOC whose sole job is to increment the value of a dereferenced integer pointer to address zero.

Located near bottom-left of SOCOG Technical Specialist Volunteers (TSV) Block A10.

PROGSOC
(){++*(
INT*)0;}

Other Famous Bricks

A misspelt brick wishing UTS rower James Stewart good luck (and possibly jynxing him).

A brick for "Jake Wallace", possibly the same Jake Wallace who was a UTS BIT student 1998-2000.

How To Find A Brick
(using 3/4 pants)

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

"ProgSoc Brick":
Follow down the right-hand side of block A17, in the 6th row from the top, 9th brick from the right.

"C Function":
Follow up the left-hand side of block A10 (the extra tall one), in the 5th row from the bottom, 4th brick from the left.

Gallery

Visit by Tom Bozic 19th July 2020

Visit by Oli Lenehan 26th August 2022

Visit by Tom Bozic 11th November 2023

Visit by Oli Lenehan 30th September 2024

Lore

The Old ProgSoc Wiki

The Even-Older ProgSoc Wiki

Early ProgSoc Website

Can't ProgSoc do this 'Web' stuff too?