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My April Fool’s Day weblog prank was to not do an April Fool’s Day weblog prank. Ha, got you all didn’t I?

Anyone spot any good ones, or in the media?

#1

Gordon | 2004 / 04 / 01 – 17:07

Feck. Forgot to do mine. Next year!

#2

David | 2004 / 04 / 01 – 17:19

Good ol’ Meg can always be relied upon, just like last year.

#3

David | 2004 / 04 / 01 – 17:33

Quite a funny, well-done and geeky joint April Fool’s Day gag pulled off by Dave Mezzoblue and Stopdesign — all they’ve essentially done is swapped CSS files, with one claiming it’s a new redesign and the other accusing them of shamelessly stealing his design, niftily demonstrating the power of stylesheets in the proceess.

Well, I thought it was clever anyway. Shame everyone seemed to get it straight away — it’s always funnier when at least some people are fooled.

#4

graeme | 2004 / 04 / 01 – 19:58

Google made me chuckle this morning with their lunar job opportunity. A great April Fool…or is it?

#5

David | 2004 / 04 / 02 – 00:10

Re #4: I think it’s safe to say that one’s a joke — but what about their new 1Gb-of-free-storage-space webmail service?

#6

David | 2004 / 04 / 02 – 10:42

Further to #5: Looks like it’s a genuine service! Microsoft’s Hotmail team must be quaking in their sandals.

#7

mrtn | 2004 / 04 / 02 – 11:41

re #6: yeah, i read about it in the business pages this morning. irony of ironies, m$ are said to be looking with interest into whether there might be some kind of anti-competition angle…

#8

mrtn | 2004 / 04 / 02 – 12:12

re post: this in the register; sad when you do’t actually get around to reading it until the day after!

#9

David | 2004 / 04 / 02 – 13:02

Re #8: But the datestamp for that article is 01/04/2004 22:43 GMT! Everybody knows you can’t play an April Fool after midday [hence my the title of my entry].

#10

mrtn | 2004 / 04 / 02 – 13:41

re #9: true, true. but this _is_ the internet dude! since it was less than 12hrs after noon, there must have been somewhere [pacific islands just east of new zealand?] for whom it was a valid, albeit very late, april fool…

#11

David | 2004 / 04 / 02 – 14:01

Re #10: Ah, but they specifically put GMT [and it’s a .co.uk domain]. They should have at least made sure their posting time made it a valid April Fool in the country of origin. These things need to be done properly, otherwise it’ll just be anarchy. ;)

#12

mrtn | 2004 / 04 / 02 – 14:13

re #11: if it was _specifically_ intended for the uk market, wouldn’t they have used “BST”?

and there is a register.com url too btw..

#13

David | 2004 / 04 / 02 – 14:27

[Flippin’ devil’s advocates! ;)]

Re #12: If they were doing things correctly they probably would have used BST, but we’ve already established they’re pretty lax on protocol. :P For it to be valid globally the date-stamp should have been, for example, 1st of April 2004 10:43 — with no time-zone.

Re .com too: bah, blooming multi-domain registrations. Point conceded.

#14

Vicky | 2004 / 04 / 02 – 17:31

I thought the G-Mail one was an April Fool, too…

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