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   Monday, January 26, 2004

YIKES, DAGOSTINO'S SUPERMARKET MIGHT SUBPOENA ME

I got a smirk out of this story concerning Mike Rowe, a Canadian high-school student who thought it'd be funny to call his website MikeRoweSoft.com. Well, Bill Gates' evil corporation didn't get the joke and they sued the kid to take away his site. (The company's lawyers in Canada, by the way, are a firm called Smart & Biggar -- this just gets funnier all the time.)

Mike relented -- changing his site's name to Mike Rowe Forums -- but has set up chat rooms for people to lay down comments. I particularly liked this bit from a Fort Worth Telegraph article:

Mike's father, Kim Rowe, confirmed that his son had struck an agreement with Microsoft. Rowe said his son could not be interviewed Friday because he had to study for final exams.