Are you sick of Gates?
Have no time to learn linux?
Try Haiku today!
-Unknown Poet
%%
Tired of Windows?
Viruses, pop-ups, and bloat.
None are in Haiku.
-Unknown Poet
%%
Does Linux scare you?
Tired of Windows crashing?
Try Haiku today!
-Unknown Poet
%%
Windows got you down?
Too many wizards and prompts?
Haiku will free you.
-Unknown Poet
%%
What is this Haiku?
Its an open-source effort
to make an OS.
-Unknown Poet
%%
Be Inc is no more.
In its place is Haiku Inc.
Free for all the world!
-Unknown Poet
%%
Free and fun to use
Surely this is not Windows.
But it is Haiku
-Unknown Poet
%%
Microsoft really sucks.
Stability, speed, power;
Now that is Haiku
-burnhamd
%%
BeOS has been arisen,
faster better, poetic;
Haiku is today.
-burnhamd
%%
Haiku of Haikus
Then it must be recursive
An infinite loop
-Michael S
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Writing a poem
About Haiku-OS can
be very diffi
-Shane West
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Hate monopolies?
Don't want to boost Gates' Profit?
Then get Haiku now!
-Jonathan Allfrey
%%
MS overlords.
They will not deafeat Haiku.
Back the winning side!
-Jonathan Allfrey
%%
In search of some peace?
Windows isn't the answer.
Turn to Haiku now!
-Jonathan Allfrey
%%
Hate Blue Screen of Death?
Would like something more stable?
Haiku is coming!
-Jonathan Allfrey
%%
Feeling down today?
Need a little pick-me-up?
Haiku is the cure!
-Jonathan Allfrey
%%
these haikus all suck.
non-free software is a sham.
let us eschew Be.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Be volume too full!
Tough enough to overstuff?
Massive stomach ache!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
a power outage
a journaling filesystem
zero bytes lost work
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Other OS grunts
Evolution takes its toll
BeOS born fresh
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Alt+F12 the last
Workspace appears with my mail
Well attributed
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Brilliant Translators
Object-oriented coup
The way it should be
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Pe, Mail-It, Gobe
SoundPlay poots forth harmony
When will the world wake?
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
As beauty sinks in
Be users slowly grok grace
With love, warts and all
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Nine QuickTime movies
Not a word from my hard disk
Otherworldly calm
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Evangelists
Tread carefully the Be path
Are we kooks or saints?
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Receiving data
Seti crunches twice as fast
As Win98
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Bootman slays LILO
The sign of true commitment:
Run writembr
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Fumes of potential
Linger in ambiguity
The other shoe drops
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
A thousand petals
Gorgeous code drops from BeBits
Minus tractor app
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
On the brink of BONE
Want to walk with the big boys
mmap() still missing
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Giampaolo, Tsou
Cisler, Potrebic, Kimpton
Long list of fallen heroes
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Needle in the arm
I can't turn away, I'm hooked
Nowhere to run to
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
The gourmet's OS
Ripe with possibility
So much unfinished
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Change in direction
Mixed messages, what's the point?
To flourish again
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Jean Louis Gassée
Creates an awesome OS
Still Bill controls all
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Busy as a bee,
Developing apps for Be,
So must we be.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Watching the headlines
Waiting for the news to come
Gives this dog a BONE
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
I'm saving my cash
To get a special BeIA
In my cranium
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Starting BeOS
I gasp at a blue screen, but
It's just the desktop
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Such a great OS
without paying customers -
how long will it last?
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
BeOS geeks and
haiku error messages -
the perfect marriage.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Haiku messages.
Ha ha.  Ha, uhh... hardy har.
You funny computer.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Windows NT 4
on my computer at work.
I'll go postal soon.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
What is BeOS?
There is no try; It just works.
The Jedi's OS.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
No hourglass icon?
I never noticed before.
There are no delays.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Want more Be game ports?
The pathway is clear, my son.
Buy Civ:CTP.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Jean-Louis Gassée
Fearless Leader of us all
Spring into action!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Jean-Louis Gassée
Fearless Leader of us all
Make our nipples hard!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
A wellspring of hope,
"Resistance is not futile!"
BeOS cries out
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
BeOS is cool,
I say this, because it's true!
Weep, MS users.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
There was a bebox
Now there is a beoven
Gassée eat my socks
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Got a newsreader?
Usenet chorus cries out, "SLRN!"
Outlook users whine.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Beautiful OS.
Elegance.  Simplicity.
D'oh!  There's no Java!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Delete cache by hand,
so I can view my website.
Screw NetPositive.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
bad magic number
run chkbfs again
what stability?
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
GPF oppressed?
BeOS doth release thee.
You See, Be is free!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Trapped in Windows world.
Mind yearning to be Released.
Dreams of world with Be.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Bless the Cotton Squares
Sweet melody to my ears
How my BeBox sings!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
What would I do if
My BeBox was not here now?
Stuck in Windows hell
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Quick boot like rabbit
Run fast like mighty cheetah
Be will not slow down
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Jean-Louis Gassée
Please make Steve Jobs relent soon
Run Be on G4
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Run Net Positive
It may not be full featured
But it is real nice
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
See Blue Screen of Death
Cannot surf internet now
Should use Be instead.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
DOS? Linux? Windows?
BeOS could rule gaming -
Quake 3, where are you?
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
I still need Windows;
Be fumbled the ball. Two words:
USB modem.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Unforseen error
Your BeBoxen Bites its'  tail
A resource deadlock!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Microsoft fears it
Be's operating system
Soon Microsoft dies
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
In nature, things die
General OS Error
Application stops!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Jean-Louis Gassée,
sitting with erect nipples
and laughing at Bill.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Be volume too full!
Tough enough to overstuff?
Massive stomach ache!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
BONE, Flash, Opera
Java, OpenGL yes!
Next version, so sweet!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Windows 2000
Editing important file
Blue screen of death
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Boot to BeOS
Smile in anticipation
Not disappointed
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Be Inc. goes under
Next round, no investors found
Wake up in cold sweat
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
JLG leaves Be
Community gives up hope
Nope, it's from BeDope
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Memory exists
Do not overwrite data
Segmentation fault
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Life full of choices
Linux, Windows, Mac OS
Get hard on with Be
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Another Blue Screen
Say goodbye to that paper
I wish I had Be
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Fifty gig HD
Found a lost file in no time
BeOS is king
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Install BeOS
It is like the beauty of
Orange Blossom
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
A funny site here
I laugh out loud for Be Joke
Cube walls are too thin
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
To Be, not to Be?
Better than Windows it is.
More apps needed though.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Me? Think Different(ly)?
No! I think, therefore I Be.
(Makes my nipples hard!)
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
The future is here,
With a new OS and gear.
It is simply BE.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Computers now zip.
Why be held back by it, the
legacy OS?
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Yellow titlebars
dot the workspaces. See my
productivity!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Solved the silliness.
The titlebar is not huge.
It will move with [SHIFT].
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
PhotoShop withers.
Its interface pains my eyes.
ArtPaint takes no time.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Twenty MP3s.
Twelve movies on spinning cubes.
Be cacophany.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Dynamic queries
make folders from far flung files.
Good for messy folk.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
New BeDope Linux
Version 27.1; Wow!
AVN ownz j00.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
A super OS
PCs and IAs run it
Flying through one's work
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
NetPositive woe
One more modern-day website
Go get Opera
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
BeOS: desktop
BeIA: net appliance
Still, no web for you
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Be engineers lob
dead monitors in sacred
roof disposal rites
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Be is quite stable.
Glad I don't need to re-boot...
I've forgotten how!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Application crash!
Polite message shuts it down...
The rest keep working.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Joined Be SETI team.
We found intelligent life:
Other Be users!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Joined Be SETI team.
We found intelligent life:
Jean-Louis Gassée!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Finished all my work!
Next to me, co-worker fumes:
Still running ScanDisk.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Co-worker re-boots;
Meanwhile all my work is done.
I go out and play!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Can't run Office apps?
No more stupid paper clip?
Happy as a clam!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Be is my savior!
Linux gone, sad Mac no more --
No Win solution.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
You silly user
Windows is very buggy
Try BeOS now
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Spongy fresh Twinkie
Jean-Louis will eat it if
You add a hot dog
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Short little poem
Really beats the hell out of
An error message
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Open up the box
Pull out the shiny CD
Install BeOS
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Buy some freaking stock
All you stupid investors
Make lots of money
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Launch the IDE
Write some awesome new software
BeOS code rules
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
I keep launching apps
And BeOS is still fast
I love BeOS
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
BeOS is bad
proprietary software.
My boycott remains.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Sleek, fast, kickin'-ass
Easy to use, fun to code
Go, go BeOS
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Tux the penguin snoozes
Windows whistles quietly
Be is just... too cool
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Fearless leader, leads
Focus shifting to IAs
Most remain hopeful
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
No more Blinkenlites.
The geekport is history.
Farewell, yon BeBox.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
The Powerful One
For sound and pictures do abound
Be gets your work done
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
You, sick of Windows
BeOS, solution of dreams
Change, open your mind
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
NetPositive weeps
Lonely, forgotten ex-love
New springtime romance
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
On the beach I see
Ricochet and BeIA
All will be this way
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Use Be and Be free
Ricochet and drive away
The Internet calls
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Be wa totemo
daisuki to omoimasu yo.
Be wa suki desu ka?
<p>translation:<p>
Be is the OS
that I really like a lot.
Do you like it too?
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
The bird in the sky
sees the future with clear view.
It sees BeOS.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
The stream trickles down
onto the rocks down below.
It is good, like Be.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Imagine a world
without gluttony and sloth.
Do you see Windows?
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
I think, so therefore
I must be intelligent,
which means I use Be.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Be DOEP SI SO K3WL!!!
IT SI AS KEWL AS JEFF K!!!!
JEFF K USAES BE!!!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Nipples protruding,
which employee can it Be?
CEO Jean-Luis!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
bedope.com wants
my haiku for a contest
this one will not win
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
the best thing about
be, incorporated, is:
damn, I'm out of space
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Mike Popovic is
a wonderful man but this
haiku won't be returned
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
BeOS starts booting
and this haiku will finish
one second later...
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Jean-Louis Gassée
has been quoted as saying
BeIA kicks ass...
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
No-one who uses
a friend's BeOS computer
can resist the change...
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
bought a PDA
it didn't run BeIA
took it back next day...
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Netpositive works
IE is a bullseye
waiting to get nailed
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
workspaces galore
tracker, bone, kits and much more
stable, swift - just be
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
D. Giampaolo
BFS by Dominic
@google.com
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
multi-threaded Be
spindly bytes and bits a flood
life in the fast lane
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Linux is arcane
Windows will not stay running
Be is straight from God
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
The world is crashing
Systems falling everywhere
Oh I love my Be
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Strength like the big oak
Simple like the blade of grass
So is Be serene
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
To Be is to be
Multithreaded, SMP
journaled filestystem.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Another OS
So unlike all the others
Simple just to BE.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
What BeOS needs,
porting to Itanium.
That would really rock!
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Tracker opens now
to flurry not around, but
remain desktop bound
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
old Pulse hides secret
if (disable both c_p_us)
then (click click) equals ............
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
Please print all Haiku
I'm interested to see
Poetry on Be
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
As I think of Her
I will Be, reading News patiently
All three, in time.
-<a href="http://www.begroovy.com/">BeGroovy.com</a>
%%
In past systems;
were Control, Alt, Del
your best friends.
-Ville Koskinen
%%
Booting Haiku;
the unexpected pleasure
is imminent.
-Ville Koskinen
%%
Losing power!
The best combination,
is Haiku and UPS.
-Ville Koskinen
%%
Restless mind;
freedom to create,
the meaning of Haiku.
-Ville Koskinen
%%
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
-Unknown Poet
%%
Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
-Unknown Poet
%%
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
-Unknown Poet
%%
Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again
-Unknown Poet
%%
The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
-Unknown Poet
%%
Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
-Unknown Poet
%%
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
-Unknown Poet
%%
Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
-Unknown Poet
%%
Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.
-Unknown Poet
%%
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
-Unknown Poet
%%
Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.
-Unknown Poet
%%
This site has been moved.
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
have to delete you.
-Unknown Poet
%%
Wind catches lily
Scatt'ring petals to the wind:
Segmentation fault
-Unknown Poet
%%
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.
-Unknown Poet
%%
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
-Unknown Poet
%%
With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
-Unknown Poet
%%
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
-Unknown Poet
%%
The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist
-Unknown Poet
%%
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
-Unknown Poet
%%
A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
-Unknown Poet
%%
There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge
-Unknown Poet
%%
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
-Unknown Poet
%%
To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
-Unknown Poet
%%
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
-Unknown Poet
%%
No keyboard present
Hit F1 to continue
Zen engineering?
-Unknown Poet
%%
Hal, open the file
Hal, open the damn file, Hal
open the, please Hal
-Unknown Poet
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
-Unknown Poet
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Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
-Unknown Poet
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The ten thousand things
How long do any persist?
Netscape, too, has gone.
-Unknown Poet
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Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: "File not found."
-Unknown Poet
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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Money, Fame, Women...
What Haiku's devs are getting
I should be coding
-BiPolar, Argentina
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Sandwich Boy Frontin'
Talkin' 'Bout Some BeOS
Dreamweaver, 2K
-Jason Christie