Matt tells us the office pranks he masterminded a couple weeks ago got reported in Saturday’s Daily Mirror (scan above):

JOKER Matt Batchelder had the last laugh after he was left out of an office conference trip.

Alone at his desk for a week, the snubbed computer geek dreamed up a series of pranks to greet his boss and three colleagues as they returned… on April Fool’s Day.

First he “ovenwrapped” all the chairs in 1,100 sq ft of tin foil.

He also plastered 5,300 post-it notes over every available work surface. Then he painstakingly arranged 578 plastic cups on the office floor. And finally, he filled the place with 280 balloons.

Married Matt, a whizkid web engineer, was the talk of the campus at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, where he works in the admin department.

An insider said: “We don’t know if his bosses saw the funny side – or if he’s been fired.”

Nobody here knows who the “insider” is, and Matt’s bummed that he didn’t get his blog mentioned, but the coverage is still sweet. And, now we can officially call Matt the office nerd.

Can anybody send a copy?

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Matty discovered jQuery at The Ajax Experience, and his enthusiasm has rubbed off on me.

jQuery makes coding JavaScript fun again. Well, at least it makes it possible to write code and content separately. And that means that sweet AJAXy pages can be made more easily, and it sort of forces designers to make them accessible from the start.

Resources:

• jQuery: JavaScript Library
• Getting Started with jQuery
• Visual jQuery 1.0 (Automated)
• jQuery: Plugins

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I first caught up with all this at Matt’s blog, but on the radio out here in Oregon today they kept inserting Chuck Norris legends between songs. Here’s a bunch from Chuck Norris Facts:

• When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
   
• Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
   
• There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.
   
• Outer space exists because it’s afraid to be on the same planet with Chuck Norris.
   
• Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
   
• Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
   
• Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
   
• Chuck Norris counted to infinity – twice.
   
• There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only another fist.
   
• When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.
   
• Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.
   
• Chuck Norris’ hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.
   
• There is no such thing as global warming. Chuck Norris was cold, so he turned the sun up.
   
• Chuck Norris can lead a horse to water AND make it drink.
   
• Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.
   
• Chuck Norris gave Mona Lisa that smile.
   
• Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.
   
• Chuck Norris does not get frostbite. Chuck Norris bites frost
   
• Remember the Soviet Union? They decided to quit after watching a DeltaForce marathon on Satellite TV.
   
• Contrary to popular belief, America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship.

Not that it matters, but Ed Friedlander, M.D., Pathologist apparently uses Chuck Norris as an example in his classes (search, you’ll find it)

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