Microsoft Corp co-founder William Gates III has unfortunately made many enemies along the way and the band of people out to get him any way they can grows all the time: few are more contrived than the suggestion that if you add up the ASCII numbers associated with BILLGATES 3 you get that number that proved to be such a source of hassle at Procter & Gamble Co, the one that according to the Book of Revelation is the Mark of the Beast… and of course the devil-may-care Microsoft has just taken on a chief operating officer who it tapped from that very firm (CI No 2,541).