Every year, I tell myself that I’m going to make an awesome April Fools’ version of my blog, and every year I forget about it until the last minute. I remember one year, I was planning on putting sponsors all over my website. That was a long time ago, and in retrospect, it’s a lame idea. A lot of April Fools’ ideas are pretty lame, but I guess it mainly depends on how you view April 1st. For instance, I find it mildly funny that xkcd points you to Questionable Content, while Questionable Content links to Dinosaur Comics, and Dinosaur Comics links back to xkcd. I also find it funny that the Telegraph reported on flying penguins, and Google and Virgin teamed up to establish a colony on Mars (complete with a questionnaire).
Even better is YouTube RickRolling everyone who clicked on a featured video on the front page (on a related note, GameFAQs has a RickRoll poll on the front page), or College Humor getting bought by some MySpace diva. (Unfortunately, they took that down before I was able to get a screenshot and Google’s cached version is just a few hours off.)
As with every April Fools’ Day, there’s going to be funny stuff, not-so-funny stuff, and stuff that’s just weird. And then there’s stuff like Dextre the Magnificent. Actually, that did make me laugh. In a nerdy sort of way. You know, with the snort and requisite pushing up of the glasses.
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Apparently, someone got my MySpace password and sent spam emails to a bunch of my friends, resulting in my account being blocked. The strange thing is that MySpace didn’t even bother to send me an email telling me I’d been blocked. I mean, you’d think it’d be common courtesy to at least let me know before I logged into my account and saw a giant message from Tom about how I’d been phished.
But I don’t think I really was phished. Yes, someone got hold of my password and spammed people, but I haven’t logged into MySpace in weeks, and I always make sure that I’m logging into myspace.com, not some poorly spelled doppelgänger. Of course, I might have been less sure at some point, but it sure wasn’t recently, and I can’t imagine someone getting my password and waiting a week or two before doing anything with it. I suppose they could have been playing around with other peoples’ passwords before coming around to mine…
Anyways, even if I wasn’t phished, someone managed to hack into my MySpace account, which really worries me. Luckily, nothing in my profile or account was changed, so I’m beginning to suspect some kind of spam bot instead of a real person. Still, it’s a good lesson about how unsafe the Internet really can be. And yet MySpace still won’t let you have a password longer than 10 characters…
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My computer seriously hates me. First off, my video card died (crappy Chaintech support is partially to blame), so I’m being forced to use an ancient NVIDIA TNT2 card (it’s almost seven years old, people) just so I can use the computer. On the plus side, it’s a better card than the piece-of-crap ATI Rage Pro card that I could have used. On the down side, I can’t use Photoshop because my video card is too slow, meaning I’m going to fall way behind on the logo project for Digital Imaging, which should have been finished Wednesday. On the Internet side of things, Firefox won’t show half my bookmarks and it’s having problems following links when I click on them, Internet Explorer just plain sucks, and the fresh copy of the Opera browser I just downloaded doesn’t like MySpace.
Anyways, I found an old Texas pal on MySpace, Stephen Reilly. He moved up to New Jersey right after 8th grade and I thought I’d never see him again. So, a few days ago, I was searching for junior high friends on MySpace and, lo and behold, his name popped up. It was pretty cool.
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