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Now that is a great collection, thank you!

One thing that I think would make the collection even better is spoiler free titles to maximize the suspense.

For example, the screen saver story lost much excitement when I knew the cause from the title.

Good point. I changed a few. Thanks for the note.

"My printer doesn't work on Tuesdays" is another good one.

My favorite debugging challenges are the "Pfft, computers simply don't work that way" -> user reproduces symptoms in an inarguable manner -> "Hmm..." -> "Well, apparently when thirteen levels of stacked prisms are arranged in the right way, computers do work that way. Fixed (on Tuesdays)."

Edit: Or, you know, hardware failures that nobody expects anymore.

Thanks. Didn't know this one. Great read and highly entertaining.

Oh man, as a systems guy, this warms my cold winter morning.

A true classic, I never get tired of reading that one.

Thanks for the recommendation! Great read.