Slipped discs: When Daniel S. opened the box for his new Dell Dimension 5150, he was surprised to find no Windows reinstallation discs inside. A support tech reassured him the OS files he needed were on his hard drive. And if his PC is so farshtunken he can't get to the files, well, he must send Dell US$10 and wait a week for the CD to arrive. Let's just hope he doesn't install WGA.

Out to launch: A reader who requested anonymity recently received a message from a NASA employee containing e-mail addresses for 200 high-ranking folks at the space agency, the Air Force, the Pentagon, and various news organizations. The employee was trying to transfer his address book to a new job. Two weeks later, he did it again. It seems not everyone at NASA is a rocket scientist.

Stupid e-mail tricks, part deux: Cringe fan Paul B. directs our attention to InBoxer's registration-gated Enron e-mail site (http://www.enronemail.com/), which lets you search more than 500,000 e-mails from Enron's heyday. Now we know what employees were doing (http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/email_aachhcagif_ed) while Enron flushed $60 billion down the loo -- forwarding stupid jokes. The messages from Kenneth Lay and Ken Skilling about Enron's Business Ethics Policy are a special treat. I just love science fiction.

Google's Excel-ent adventure: Following the release of Google's browser-based spreadsheet (http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/06/78964_HNgooglespreadsheet_1.html), residents of Redmond reported sightings of low-flying office furniture over the Microsoft campus. No problem; I hear Ballmer was planning to remodel his office anyway.

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