Google April Fools Day 2008 Pranks and Jokes

Written by Manas Apr 01

Here are the ones I found till now:
http://www.google.com.au/intl/en/gday/index.html
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html
The other two are in Korean and Japanese and so not posting them here.
Will update if I find any more :)
Happy April fool’s day everyone! Its your day! ;)
Update: Here is the BIG one!! The Virgle project!
http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html
Update #2 : Orkut turned into yogurt:

MBA

Written by Manas Mar 25

A few hitherto unknown facts revealed in this post.
I wrote CAT this time. I got a 98.XX percentile and have an interview call from IIM Bangalore.
The time I wrote CAT, I thought that maybe this will be a good thing. MBA - will get to learn a lot, will get to experience a new world altogether.
But [...]

A post using Windows Live Writer

Written by Manas Mar 20

Am writing this post using Windows Live Writer. It is a desktop application that can post for you to your blog – It corrects spelling, formats text just like an office application. The best part is that you can upload photos by drag drop, and it shows your post in your template even as you [...]

Random Stuff

Written by Manas Mar 19

People have been asking me why have I suddenly disappeared from the blogging circle entirely. I actually have - my last post was something like 2 weeks back!
I’m quite busy in office these days, and have taken up a new schedule where I get up by 6.30 in the morning and am in office by [...]

VISA Balaji

Written by Manas Mar 02

Though I’m not very religious, I like to visit temples. I visited the temple of Chilkur Balaji with my dear cousin Harsh today. It is located approximately 20 km from Mehadipatnam, Hyderabad.
The interesting thing about this temple is that among other things, people come here to pray for Visa. They say that God grants an [...]

Addicted :(

Written by Manas Mar 01

I came back late from office today - after 11 pm - had an unusually busy day.
I reached home and turned on my computer.
I launched Internet Explorer and prayed - Oh God! I don’t want my internet connection to work tonight.
It was working.
And here I am, at 1 a.m., dead tired, swollen eyes, but glued [...]

Coins

Written by Manas Feb 28

Remember the time when coins were such a hard thing to find? No shopkeeper seemed to have coins, and everyone resorted to shelling out those toffees for 50p or 1 Re. (I bet the smart ones still do)
I’ve been facing the opposite problem for the last few months. I don’t carry coins in with me, [...]

A childhood memory - episode 2

Written by Manas Feb 24

Let me share another childhood memory with you - a funny one this time.

When I was a kid, before my voice cracked, I had a very thin voice. In simpler terms, I had a voice that sounded very much like a girl’s. I was teased a lot, and I used to wait for the day [...]

Enchanted

Written by Manas Feb 23

I saw Enchanted today. The new movie by Disney studios.
It begins as a classic Disney fairy tale animation, where a pretty girl meets the prince, and they decide to marry. The evil queen however, is afraid of losing her throne to this girl, and sends her to - guess where - New York! From the animated [...]

How to make kalakki - the best egg dish?

Written by Manas Feb 22

If you are/were fond of eating at the gate of NIT Trichy, at Rajni Anna’s or Raju Anna’s or at Motel Bamboos, you must have eaten the world’s best egg dish - kalakki. After passing out, I missed it so much, that one day I decided to make it on my own. Smart as I am, [...]