1.   After his loss, he retired to his Mount Cube Farm in Orford, where he bottled maple syrup and penned a column for the Union Leader.

2.   Ex-Habs coach Pat Burns penned a column last week in Montreal, sounding open to the possibility of returning.

3.   Microsoft capo Bill Gates pens a column and simultaneously plots world domination.

4.   Venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, former Vignette Chairman Ross Garber, pioneering designer Roger Black and Global Business Network Chairman Peter Schwartz will pen monthly columns.

5.   Juljira pens a column titled Nam Chee Dee Jing Rue ?

6.   However, palace officials in Phnom Penh have admitted privately that the column is penned by the monarch under a pseudonym.