April
1st 2005
April Fool’s Day

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I’m pretty sure that I used to enjoy this day reading about various pranks that fooled a bunch of people, but it has really gotten out of hand now. Just take a look at Slashdot. I think there might be one real article in there somewhere today, but the rest is just people trying too hard to out-do each other for their April Fool’s Day gag.

There is a point when this stuff is just no longer amusing. Please stop… you’re just missing the point.

6 Responses to “April Fool’s Day”

  1. Schreurs on 04 Apr 2005 at 12:52 pm #

    Well it appears that someone woke up with their April Fools’ crabby pants on this morning.

  2. Schreurs on 06 Apr 2005 at 10:25 am #

    Just wanted to let you know that the folks over at CNet came up with an idea very similar to yours regarding multiple RSS feeds on 1 page.

    http://www.newsburst.com

    I’ve been playing with it and it beats the hell out of Google News.

  3. chris on 08 Apr 2005 at 8:28 am #

    Newsburst looks pretty interesting… a more efficient approach to what I’m doing for sure. After changing my view preferences to Dashboard you can make it look pretty much like mine. I had some trouble in setting up a feed intitially, but I don’t remember what feed it was that I wanted to setup. I setup /., ALA, and K5 and they all seem cool.

  4. Schreurs on 08 Apr 2005 at 1:45 pm #

    They don’t seem to update too often. That may be the only downside. Bastards.

    I want my RSS!

  5. Schreurs on 26 Apr 2005 at 11:09 am #

    Wierd to think that I graduate next week. Hope all is going well with you. You’re a consultant now? I read your profile on the mIRC forums.

    I’ll be moving to Peoria, IL, to work for Caterpillar Logistics beginning May 31st. Hello World I guess. Shoot me a line (email) or post comments on my blog so we can keep in touch.

    Take care.

  6. chris on 26 Apr 2005 at 11:37 am #

    Congrats man. I read your blog a week or so back and was wondering if there were any updates. Good to see that you got the job you wanted after all those interviews. Smith and I will have to have a few beers with you sometime before you take off.

    And no - my title is still developer, but its easiest to be vague and say consultant. I wear many hats :)