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Yes! John saved an archive of Painfully Serious Dell Rumors!

John Siracusa still doesn’t like Mac OS X’s Finder.

Apparantely not an April Fool’s Joke: U.S. Navy Captain Mike Tillotson told reporters that three or four dolphins would work from Umm Qasr, using their natural sonar abilities to seek out mines or other explosive devices which Iraqi forces may have planted on the seabed.

The mysterious case of the 500-mile email. This haunts my dreams.

Other good April Fool’s Jokes from yesterday that I missed: Skynet CPU Back On Track (this one’s hilarious), Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac OS X, IPv4 Security Flag (also hilarious, but only if you’re a true nerd), Microsoft Buys Open Source, and NewCode.

Bare Bones Software comes through. They always have the best April Fool’s jokes.

Crazy Apple Rumors has become Painfully Serious Dell Rumors for the day. I hope John keeps an archive of that around somewhere.

Hmmm. I was looking at last year’s April Fool’s recap and noticed this one: AOL buys Blogs. Of course, less than a year later, Google actually does.

Hyatt sez: The next release of Safari will be fully embracing Web standards by dropping all support for tables. From now on, any pages that use tables will cause Safari to play a very loud raspberry sound and refuse to display the page.

The jokes continue: Movable Bloggerland. Spokesmen for Google confirmed the acquisitions of Seven Together (makers of the popular weblog application Movable Type) and Userland (creator of Radio Userland). Plans are to combine the operations of the two companies into the existing Blogger operation. The combined entity will be known as Movable Bloggerland.

This one about nude volleyball? Not a joke. Still funny, but not a joke.

Bill has asked for a list of top ten pranks. I’ll have to think about that one for a while.

Someone wrote a thesis on Weezer. Rather than dissipate when Weezer went on hiatus, these internet communities expanded. The internet message boards became an important forum for fans to exchange opinions on Weezer and to seek out whatever updates they could muster about prospective Weezer activity.

I had a copy of the blue album back when it first came out, and I remember hearing “The Good Life” on the radio shortly thereafter, but I didn’t really start listening to the band again for a few years. I found my copy of the blue album in my car in late 1998, early 1999, and started listening again. Holy crap, I thought. Why didn’t I realize how good this is the first time?

I picked up Pinkterton shortly after that and spent a good, long time warming up to it. It’s a very different album, but I think it shows how much diversity Weezer really has. I also got The Rentals’ first album. Also cool, in a new wave kinda way.

Thanks to Dave (who fell in love with the song “Hash Pipe” before realizing what it was about) for the link.

Brent Simmons: So he writes me a check for a billion dollars, signs his name and all, and I shut up.

Hackers Condemn Arab Site Hack:“On the off chance that the persons responsible are politically aware and are Americans, then I can only assume they haven’t read the Bill of Rights, or don’t remember what the First Amendment said,” Ferrell added.

More duck and cover safety humor.

Mac OS X April Fools’ Jokes from MacOSXHints.com. Hee hee. Tomorrow is one of my favorite days of the year. I love being a sysadmin, or whatever you want to call me, on April 1.

Bill and Susan were over last night. We had a great time, and some very good conversation.

Frequency 1.0b2 is now in the hands of my beta testers. I’m thinking this will be the final beta before the April 15 release.

I’m now using Mail, iCal, and Address Book instead of Entourage. And I’m pretty happy the combination. Mail is not as glitzy as Entourage, and certainly not as full-featured, but after a week and a hald, I realize that I don’t need most of Entourage’s features. Address Book is quite a capable little app. Very nice. iCal still has some kinks. Notifications could be better, but I like the option to be sent an email reminder. That’s pretty cool.

The application “Safari” has unexpectedly quit. That probably means it’s time to go to bed now.

Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server Essentials: Day Five. NetBoot rules. And Workgroup Management, well, that rules, too. Apple has taken all the best things you can do with managing Windows clients from a Windows server and elegantly put them into Mac OS X Server. Except it’s so much easier. Today I can confidently say that I’m ready to deploy Mac OS X in a lab environment. Yesterday, I couldn’t say that. Now I just have to get NetInfo and Active Directory talking, but I’m getting closer all the time. Too bad the class is over; it was a blast.

I’m hoping to release Frequency 1.0b2 to my beta group on Monday. List of fixes: less hassle to switch between multiple weblogs, more forgiving of not setting up Blogger accounts. I might add a little iTunes button in there, too, but I haven’t decided for sure, yet.

Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server Essentials: Day Four. WebDAV rocks. NFS re-sharing is the geekiest thing I’ve done in a long, long time. Virtual hosting is cool. So much cool stuff to learn more about. I’m learning a ton, but this class is doing more to whet my appetite than anything else! I’m seriously considering the ACTC exam when I’m done. I’d love to move on to the ACSA courses, but I don’t think there’s a budget for that.

Dave is such a wuss.

Bad news: The ruling basically declares it is technically not against any law, rule, or regulation to deliberately lie or distort the news on a television broadcast.

The Anti-Virus Top Ten.

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web. Interesting read.

Can anyone else get though to MSNBC? I’ve only been able to reach them once since the war started. That sucks. Now I might have to start watching TV to get my news. Well, I mean, watching something other than the Disney Channel.

One bad thing about the server training this week: we’re on a closed network. Since we’re screwing around with DNS and DHCP, that’s a good thing. But I’m cut off from my mail. I feel so disconnected.

Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server Essentials: Day Three. Oooooooooh. Today was cool. I learned some really cool stuff about Jaguar Server. For starters, the admin tools are absolutely wonderful. So nice, in fact, that I am ready to move all of my Mac OS X 10.1 Servers to Jaguar Server right away. They’re that nice. Also got some great tips for talking to Active Directory, which was my ultimate goal for taking this class. It’s funny, I’ve somehow become the Windows expert for the group; the instructor always calls on me for any Windows-related questions. Mention Active Directory a couple times and suddenly you’re branded. Tomorrow should be even better.