Centennial College recently launched it's much-touted E-commerce Institute in an attempt to train more students to become future Net gazillionaires. Since Bell Canada is one of the sponsors of the program, they handed out "Quickchange" telephone cards at the opening. The cards, which contain a microchip that keeps track of how many free calls are remaining, were marked with a face value of $3. Unfortunately, due to a programming mistake somewhere along the line at Bell, the cards were accidentally given $10 worth of credit each, turning what was supposed to be a $4,500 donation into a $15,000 booboo.

Nobody's going to be an overnight gazillionaire if they're learning to do business like that.

Be sure to close the Gates on your way out, Bill

For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past month, Bill Gates decided that it was finally time to step down from the helm at Microsoft. Why? Well, the following list, found at Salon.com, might offer some idea.

Ten reasons why the Microsoft founder is handing off the CEO torch:

10. Figured it was Ballmer's turn to pretend not to understand the Justice Department's questions.

9. The cross-house commute from his bedroom to his home office had become too exhausting.

8. Steve Case doesn't have to be CEO anymore and gets to be the visionary — why can't I?

7. Got sick of having to deal with random, stupid people all day.

6. Got addicted to day-trading Internet stocks.

5. Time to go back to Harvard and finish his B.A.

4. Realized the only way all the bugs in Windows would ever get fixed is if he did it himself.

3. Wanted to find complete T.rex skeleton before Nathan Myhrvold did.

2. Needed more time to learn Linux.

1. He's the richest man in the world and he can do whatever he damn well pleases.

Don't know who some of the people mentioned in the list are? Well, there's a homework assignment for you — go find out.

Uri gonna get it, Nintendo! According to scifi.ign.com, Everybody's favourite "I-can-bend-spoons-with-my-mind" psychic Uri Geller is on the litigation warpath again, this time trying to sue Nintendo for about US$147 million (anyone remember him trying to sue Timex over a TV commercial that had a psychic trying to break a watch?) Anyway, it seems that Nintendo's horribly popular Pokemon games and cards include one that uses Geller's image without his permission. The Pokemon in question is #65, which is named Alakazam in the American version of the game, but "Un-Geller" in the original Japanese version. Geller claims that the reference to him is too specific, because critter #65 carries bent spoons in his hands.

Apparently when Geller went Christmas shopping in Japan recently, he was mobbed by groups of under-aged Japanese Pokemon collectors begging for autographs on their Un-Geller cards. Obviously upset with all this popularity and fame, he filed the suit.