Goldfish Bowl

April Fools

HAHA! Gotcha!

Yes, that’s right, I hacked myself. I thought it’d be an interesting experiment to see how many people actually noticed, or maybe more to the point, how many people cared. Only a couple, it seems.

I used a nice bit of code, which could be intergrated into a WordPress plugin I guess – even if it is only about 10 lines long. Here is the code:

// START the Hack ... uhhh, hack.
$fools = 0;
if (date("d-m",time()) == "01-04" ){ // this is the date in form day-month
	if (date("G",time()) < 17) { // this is the time in form Hour
		$fools = 1;
	}
}

if ($fools) {
echo < <
Handy little script for such occasions.  And it in itself is a bit of a hack.  You just put this at the top of your template file (header) and watch as the code gets replaced during that period of time. 
Yesterday I went to town and bought a new batch of notebooks to fill with nonsense.  Very satisfying indeed.  However, I'm somewhat dissapointed that the only art shop in Wycombe (not including places like The Works which kinda has a room upstairs for a limited selection of bits and pieces) has closed.  Just shows you how inspired this place is these days.  I'm going to have to go to the Bisham Center to get my arty type materials now, which is alright I suppose, because it's a better shop - it's much bigger and has more useful things in it.
What'd be nice is a decent online art shop, though, that sells things that I need like fabric inks.  Oh well.