Toldjaso... McSoft announced their new subscription service, Windows OneCare - which (for a fee) purportedly will protect your computer from wily hackers. Let's call a spade a spade. This is an extortion racket. You will be paying Microsoft to prevent people from exploiting Microsoft's poorly written software. Now they will have zero financial incentive to fix the bugs, and a strong financial incentive to create even more bugs. It's a novel and interesting business model for the software industry. Make the customer pay extra for the bugs you create.

It isn't just the queen bestowing knighthood on anybody these days. Now the new pope has requested that the old pope (John Paul II for those of you with short memories) be on the 'fast track' to sainthood - which starts with the beatification process. This was announced exactly 24 years after he got shot. Then all they have to do is find one miracle that could be attributed to him and he's there. Hmmm, it's a miracle he didn't die. See, it's easy.