After a week off. Here we are back in the saddle again. Now, here's -

MONDAY, MONDAY

GEEK COURT
Microsoft is suing 17 yr. old Mike Rowe for copyright infringement after the teen had the audacity to create mikerowesoft.com.

Looks like Bill Gates is worried about competition in the illiterate market.

TOP ELEVEN STARTUP MESSAGES YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE
Thanks to GeekPress/BBSpot:

11. The Department of Homeland Security thanks you for letting us watch you use this computer.
10. Deleting all illegal files... 1% done
9. Welcome to Gator OS
8. \root\system32\ntoskernel.exe is missing or corrupted. Please install this file and try again.
7. **** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ****
64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
6. English language module not found. Switching to Klingon
5. Welcome to Mac OS
4. This machine has been assimilated. Thanks for joining the Borg
3. Stormtroopers? Here? We're in danger. I must tell the others. Oh, no! I've been shot!
2. beeeeeep-beeeeeep-beeeeeep
1. Welcome back, Professor Falken. Would you like to play a game?

GREAT JOB, HERE'S A COMPUTER
It's "Buy your Employees a Computer" day in the U.K. Where corporations get a handy tax break for springing for a new PC for their workers.

P2P EXPANDING TO SOFTWARE PIRACY
Actually, it always has. According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), while the RIAA and MPAA's squeaking wheels are getting the grease, more file sharers are swapping pirated computer software than ever before.

Meanwhile, the RIAA Jihad against P2P is only serving to move the activity further underground as more and more applications are popping up which make filesharers annonymous on the net and giving the ability to distinguish legit files from phoney or virus infected ones.