Blizzard is the master of april fools. This video is just plain awesome
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/moltencore/

I however am not a master of april fools, this is what happened to me…

I have used net send in the past, its a nice nifty built-in way to use instant messaging from the command prompt. However it is disabled in SP2 for XP. At work, most people have SP2 if they have a new computer, but plenty do not.

Today at work I tried to net send to someone who had it disabled. I wasn’t completely sure my net send was thwarted so I specified the domain ‘workgroup’ when I sent it to the one person next to me in the office. But no, it didn’t go to him again because he had it disabled.

Instead, a puzzling/alarming message from me went to everyone with a slightly old not-updated pc in the whole company.
Message from SheridanT to Workgroup: “somebody set us up the bomb”
A window similar to the below picture, popped up on the screen of dozens of people I’ve never met, amused fellowe geeks, confused artists, and bosses, lots of bosses.

So the IT guy runs to my desk asking if we are going to need to evacuate or something, I said, no its classic geek-dom from allyourbase, and its April fools. I didn’t realize that it had gone to so many people when he asked me. But as soon as he did I sent another one saying Message from SheridanT to workgroup: “Happy April Fools” to hopefully calm any bomb threats? Hah.

Then I get an email from some main tech guy in Lunenburg where the main office is about how messengers are a violation of the company standards. Sheepishly, I replied “understood”.

I remembered my IT guy said it was disabled but that also means I can enable it. So after I sent that, I enabled my own. Shortly thereafter, a fellow geek in Lunenburg replied with “you are on the way to destruction” “you have no chance to survive, make your time” :-) pure nerd gold!

A happy ending to april fools gaffe! :-) Although someone somewhere wrote my name down in the naughty list I’m sure.