Attention all geeks: now's your chance to break away from the Trekkie convention set and sail the seven seas with your fellow technophiles. Geek Cruises has weighed anchor with its array of technology cruise-conferences to Alaska, Europe, the Carribean, and Hawaii.

Instead of spending your cruise time on the Leto Deck playing shuffleboard, you can be tuning up your Photoshop skills with world-class lecturers. Want to ask Woz (that's Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak for you PC people) a question about your iMac? Just jump aboard the Mac Mania IV cruise.

Geek Cruises is the brainchild of CEO and Captain Neil Bauman, who 'had an "Aha!" moment while reading a Perl programming book on a cruise ship in Alaska' a couple of years ago. The rest is history. Now if only Gopher, Julie, and Captain Stubing were there to round it out with bad humor...