Formatting Drive D:\

Check the disk for imperfections.
Wait.
And lost clusters.
Wait.
And missing pointers.
Think about what you love.
Copy user data.
Wait.
Fill contiguous clusters.
Consider.
Restart.

Big Dog

Chloe the chihuahua
is a big dog — this she knows.
You'd better not dispute it;
she'll nip you on your toes.

Raise Your Eyes

My gaze floats up
past the busy backs of my busy hands,
upward, skyward, heavenward...
yeh, I bought a laptop stand.

The Late Late Night TV

Conan and Leno are desperate for shares
for their shows from the sixties but nobody cares.

Take Two Tablets

Apple, they say, will have this new thing
that will wow you and awe you from now until spring.
It will be a big screen with no keyboard or mouse
and most people will want three or four in their house.

What it does, how it works, why it's cool
we don't know, but for sure it's the tool
that will make your mind grow --
the design and the software will perfectly flow

from the vision of Steve (OMG he's so great)
and the sweat of his staff who are all working late.
I don't know how we'll hold out 'til Jan twenty-seven;
when they open the gate into Apple-fan heaven.

That's an ice language ya got there...

The weather and the temperature
are undergoing change,
but they called it "global warming"
so that ice outside seems strange.

The App Store

The candy in the supermarket's
right beside the register
and so without a thought
a bar is bought.

We can spend about a buck
and what the heck, just try our luck
Some are silly; none are traps
so everybody wants some apps.

CES

There's this show called C - E - S;
gadgets and similar stuff, I guess.
I have a lot of them, oh yes...
I use them to create this mess.

Techno Journalusts

Technical journalists excitedly quiver --
new tablets and smartphones are making them shiver!
They're vibrating; drooling; they just cannot wait...
But this junk to the rest of us seems not that great.

Antisocial Media

Twitter facebook myspace flickr,
Blogger jaiku wordpress skype.
Wish new sites would show up quicker
Aimed at antisocial types.

The Blogger

A week ago Tuesday:
a dire event.
I just could not post
to my blog
what I meant.

After hours of work,
the answer I gleaned:
My Ethernet turned
to an Ornet, it seemed.

How this could happen
I still do not know
but I knew where the fix was
and where I must go.

So I packed up my gear --
all my keyboards and mice --
And drove to the networking
guy for advice.

He analyzed deeply
then told me his guess
about what had happened
to cause this whole mess.

Deep down in the chips
of my wireless router
a bit had inverted;
it now was a doubter.

So what I uploaded
my firmware denied
turning "yes" into "no"
and "applaud" to "decried".

But downloads were altered
the same way, you see,
So the sites that I read
were inverted to me.

And that was okay;
things had come out all right --
though my screen displays colors,
my mind's black and white.

Snappy

Some bloggers keep posting their topics to death;
Blogging for some people must be like breath.
Nothing can stop them from posting...except...
when a cable connector somehow comes unsnept.

Inseussiance

Now you don't,
But once you did
Can you again?
Go try it, kid.

Your sisters said
"Go on, you should,"
Could you like to?
Yes, you would.

No time to worry,
Nor to sigh,
Get up now
and try, try try.

Nokle and Appia

Nokia: "stealing!"
Apple: "you too!"
Both of them pay not a cent for the basic
things letting them do what they do.

Corporate Citizens?

Funny how a corporation's
(or an LLC's)
acts would earn incarceration,
done by you or me.

Tiger Would

Tiger makes some money
and some errors too.
We don't like idols
to be human -- yet we do.

Black Friday

The season is white, decorations are red,
and the shoppingest Friday's called black.
The question I cannot get out of my head:
What color means "bringing stuff back"?

ZombiPhone

All the 'smart'
my phone contains
it got from me;
it stole my brains.

99% is just showing up

A comforting thing about corporate employment:
no actual thinking impedes your enjoyment.

Brrr

Woe is me;
all is lost --
last night brought
this fall's first frost.

Smartphone

Smartphone?
Hate the
very mention;
black hole
it is
for my attention.

Google

Google for a while has had
momentum; ain't they just the fad?
I find it weird: for good or bad,
It's all just meant to sell more ads.

Social Grooming

Primates groom each other 'til
their species learns the speaking skill.
The sense they talk first grows, then shrinks --
It's due to PowerPoint, methinks.

Attention! Innovate now!

A company, as it grows and slows
(due to clogging info flows)
often starts a rising whine:
"honest, we innovate all the time"

Found Poem

I found a poem
and what it said
came clearly from a different head.
I'm sure it could
not have been me;
I lack the sensibility.