When I read an article about Google's free web-based email service on canoe.ca last night I was totally in. Even signed up for it. But then when I mentioned it to a co-worker today he said it was a joke! Or is it? Slashdot says it's a prank, but technically it is quite feasible (unlike their lunar hosting). Scanning the email's text to display appropriate ads would be quite the business model. With the enormous amount of space offered, it would quickly grab a large portion of yahoo or hotmail users. Well isn't real, it got me for sure... when I was able to track down the real press release, it was quite amusing. The writer of the original article that I read must have no sense of humour at all. I guess I must put up my April Fool's sensors before I go to bed...
At work, I mirrored the all the .GIFs on the tools website that I manage, could have been a lot meaner by putting white text on a white background. I guess that would have been a bit unproductive. Since the call centre staff have to constantly use the website, I try to keep things interesting. During Christmas, I usually change the colour scheme from our usual corporate-based colours to a more seasonal one and even have snowflakes floating down the main page.