OSI Fun: Top 5 April Fool’s Pranks
Here are our Top 5 Personal Favorites. We have used them ourselves and can verify that they are fun.

1. Take your coworker’s car keys. Move their car. Watch them search. Watch the search go from confusing to panic. Fun.

2. Buy a roll of yellow “CAUTION” tape from your local building supply store. Cordon off your neighbor’s property (or your office building, if you are ambitious). Watch them react as they come home. Video tape it as a keepsake.

3. Chose a few unsuspecting user’s keyboards and pop off a few random keys. Put them back in different places. You will be amazed at the number of people who cannot touch type. Sit back and watch them as they attempt to type there passwords. A classic.

4. Squeeze a small rubber ducky (or two) into the office water cooler bottle. See if anyone notices.

5. Print out “Please Use Other Door” and place them on as many doors as you can.

For more April Fools Fun, visit the Museum of Hoaxes

Spring Back
Additional Extended Daylight Saving Time Changes

After the much talked about extension of daylight savings time went into effect, it seems that the US Government has changed its mind in addition to its clocks. Citing pressure from constituents and MAST, a highly placed government source acknowledged that over 750,000 angry phone calls where received by the Congressional Office of Time Change Control by either 10 or 11:00 am on Monday morning, March 12th.

The MAST Consortium (Multinational Alliance for Sensible Timekeeping) is headed by Ben Layton and includes other companies concerned by time management issues such as Apple Computers, the NRA and Halliburton. MAST Chairman, Ben Layton, announced today the “because the extraordinary backlash from the public and pressure from MAST, President Bush has signed the Fall Back in Spring Extended Daylight Time Reversal Bill. Effective Monday, April 2, 2007 the US will revert to the regular daylight savings time.”

That’s right. On Sunday April 1, 2007 at 2:00 am you will set your clocks back one hour to return to the Standard Daylight Saving Time.

Microsoft and Blackberry have released patch removal patches to be implemented this weekend. These patches will auto load at 2:00 am Sunday the 8th on all PCs and servers in the affected time zones except for Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and Puerto Rico. Users in those areas are exempt from the Extended Daylight Saving Time rollback and will continue to operate under the old new Daylight Saving Time schedule.

The Congressional Office of Time Change has decided to re-implement the “s” at the end of saving so that the official name of the old time period will now be changed to “New Non Extended Daylight Savings Time” or, officially, NNEDSST for short.

If you have any questions, or need help with your clocks, please email us at AprilFools@ositechnologies.com.

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Dear Tech,
Are PCs contributing to Global Warming?
Signed, I. M. Kold.

There are two opposing camps regarding the Earth’s natural cycle of temperature variation. There are the Global Warming Deniers and the Global Warming Exaggerators. Both camps can only be found on TV, in movies or on the Great Lawn in D.C.. To identify which is which you need to turn on the sound for the TV or movie. This is very dangerous. Please do not try it at home.

The computer’s role in this has been substantial as both camps have used computers to generate graphics and charts that look like Pac Men to prove their point:

In more advanced application, computers are used to make “models” which then in turn generate very impressive graphics such as this:

Fortunately, the scientists at OSI’s World Global Warming Center have generated the following 3D Model to prove everything is OK:

So there is no need to worry any longer that computers are contributing to Global Warming.