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April Fools

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Nearly 2 months ago I posted about what I had planned to do to my brother-in-law (see http://bananabiter.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/miley-miley-miley/). Now I’m going to run through briefly what happened.

At Kelly’s suggestion I changed his desktop background to one of the pictures used, this worked amazingly well to lure him in, as the first thing he did (after yelling my name in annoyance ;-)) was open firefox to google images to find something to replace it with.

This was met with “what the…”‘s from Matt, and laughter and high-fives all around from me, Kelly, and Matt’s friend Gary who was in the room also. Matt quickly saw the funny side and started laughing, pulling up Youtube and MySpace to see how they looked as well. I think the best quote from the evening was “That is probably the best April Fools prank I’ve ever seen. I’m calling Will!”

I was also credited as having “Probably the most creative” joke he’d ever observed. All around a good 15 minutes of fun, and I lived to go to choir practice (remind me not to agree to singing with them again..).

Miley, Miley, Miley…

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My brother in law, Matthew, hates Miley Cyrus and her character, Hannah Montana, with a passion. Every mention of her name brings up loud streamings of strong dislike about her, and why. It was with this in mind that his April Fools Day ‘gift’ was birthed.

I am a nerd. I admit it. Everyone knows it. I have a proxy server that I use with my computer systems for the purpose of speeding up windows updates and such, but I usually only use it myself.

Tonight I set it up to ‘replace’ every URL for a JPG or GIF file that passes through it. That is, 90% of images seen on the internet viewed via the proxy server will be replaced with images of my choice. In this case, Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana pictures. Still not making sense? Allow me to demonstrate. Let’s start with Youtube. Here is how Youtube’s main page looks through my replacing setup.

Youtube

Still not making the point? Lets try Google Images. This is where the one or two non-jpg/gif files slip through. Here is a search for images matching the search term “Pooping”, according to my system:

Google Images

On *that* one, I think Matt will agree, she is pretty poop-like 😉