Top 11: Happy Birthday You Bucket of Bolts!

11) Use Dell Laptop with flammable batteries to light candles on birthday cake

10) Spend the night trying to install XP on your old IBM PC with 640K of RAM.

9) Grab my scuba gear and see if I can find a 20MB CDC souvenir from the artificial reef off IBM's old Boca plant.

8) See if Vista will work with 4004 Intel Processors (or any processor for that matter)7) Find your old PC in the garage and hook it up to play a nostalgic game of "Zork"

6) "Birthday punches" for every time it crashed (have plenty of bandages ready)

5) Take your PC to the shooting range.

4) Martha Stewart says old PCs make lovely new planters.

3) "Hook" your PC up with a hot date -- maybe that nice little PDA on your desk.2) Watch "2001: A Space Oddessey." Do a shot every time Hal passively threatens to kill someone.

1) Send Bill Gates a card that says "Congratulations!" on the front and "Now bite me!" on the inside.

Thanks to Dalton Smith, Norman Yelle, Ken Graham, Robert Bryant, Gregory Mamayek and Rob Trimarco. Don't forget--there are still plenty of Top 11 lists to come and IT humor online at nwc.com/lastmile.