A folk approach to the BSOD

(My boss thinks I only listen to techno and electronica, for some reason. This started forming in my head while I was thinking about work today.)

Now, I was sittin' there doing my job as a plain-jane userland programmer. I was lookin' to the side for a moment, and I noticed som'n out of the corner of my eye. Som'n...blue. I looked at the screen. Was it the sysinternals screensaver? No...It only affected two out of the four monitors.

It was the
Blue screen of death
It came to bother me
Blue screen of death
Its code had set it free!
Blue screen of death
That color's pretty nice
Blue screen of Death
But it's comin' for your life!

Now ya gotta code real fast
And ya gotta code real hard
But if you don't code it right
It won't get very far!

Hardware and software
It's all the same to me
Drivers and firmware
It's borked as you can see!

It was the Blue screen of Death
It came to bother me
Blue screen of Death
Its code had set it free!
Blue screen of Death
That color's pretty nice
Blue screen of Death
But it's comin' for your life!

Now, y'all might be wonderin' why I'm telling you all this. Y'see, it's for your own good. When you don't mind your dwords and your qwords, when you forget that your calling convention is more than the introduction when the other guy picks up the phone, when you think a pointer is just a piece of advice, that there's when you're gunnin' for some trouble. Yeah, that's right. You're breaking *my* computer. And I don't take too kindly to that.

That there's the
Blue screen of death
It's come to bother me
Blue screen of death
Your code has set it free!
Blue screen of Death
That color's pretty nice
Blue screen of Death
But it's comin' for your life!

Now you gotta code real fast
And ya gotta code real hard
But if you don't code it right
You won't get very far!

Hardware and software
It's all the same to me.
Drivers and firmware
You broke it, don't you see?!