For those of you looking to slake your thirst for Monad on something other than Blogs and Newsgroups, Andy Oakley’s book will soon be available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596100094
It’s called “Monad – Introducing the MSH Command Shell and Language.” I read it (several times) as one of the technical editors, and it’s a good piece of work.
[Edit: Monad has now been renamed to Windows PowerShell. This script or discussion may require slight adjustments before it applies directly to newer builds.]