Category: Poetry

• A Modern Christmas Carol by Mitch

  Twas the night before Christmas in faraway Japan One Jewish boy was still working with aplomb and elan. He tried to clear his dashboard of servers of red, While visions of sashimi swum round in his head. He raised his head up from his screen on occasion, To see some of his colleagues showing true…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 25, 2013

  Poetry

  A Christmas Carol, Christmas, Christmas and holiday season, Holiday, Japan, Merry Christmas, Rakuten, Skype, Tokyo

• Haiku… do you?

  I have been having fun with these Windows Server 2012 haikus… here’s another for the collection! –M Advanced Storage Needs Storage Spaces next gen RAID Volumes grow with ease

  Mitch Garvis

  October 29, 2012

  Haiku, Poetry, Windows Server 2012

• Friday Afternoon Haiku

  I still have a couple of haiku from my session last week… here’s one to end the week with! –M Shared Nothing migrate VMs move effortlessly Hosts can stand alone

  Mitch Garvis

  October 26, 2012

  Haiku, Hyper-V, Poetry, Windows Server 2012

• Haiku is the greatest form of flattery

  This will be my last haiku on Windows Server 2012 of the week.  It has been a great week that has best been experienced seventeen syllables at a time.  However if you want to experience true greatness, download the eval of Windows Server 2012 and see for yourself the power of the cloud OS! Today’s…

  Mitch Garvis

  October 19, 2012

  Haiku, Poetry, ReFS, Windows Server 2012

• Nothing says passion like Japanese poetry!

  Earlier this week I set out to write a haiku about Windows Server 2012.  I came up with several, and promised to publish one every day for a couple of weeks.  Today’s theme is Hyper-V Replica! — Virtual Machines Replicate them site to site Sidestep disasters

  Mitch Garvis

  October 18, 2012

  Haiku, Hyper-V, Hyper-V Replica, Poetry, Windows Server 2012

  Hyper-V, Hyper-V Replica, Virtual machine, VM (operating system), VMware, Windows Server, Windows Server 2012

• The Haikus continue–You are getting in on it!

  Following my first two published haikus on Windows Server 2012, I got my first couple of submissions from you!  Sean Kearney, Canada’s foremost PowerShell MVP and overall enthusiast, sent me a few poems of his own.  Here is the first, with two more coming (thus far, and for those of us who know Sean, there…

  Mitch Garvis

  October 17, 2012

  Haiku, Poetry, Sean Kearney, Windows Server 2012

• The Haiku Goes On…

  Yesterday I began my journey to improve the world through haikus about Windows Server 2012.  Here is my second Windows Server 2012 haiku!  And remember… if you like the poem, you will love the product!  Download your evaluation copy today! Also… if you have a poem about Windows Server, Hyper-V, Windows 8, or Office 2013…

  Mitch Garvis

  October 17, 2012

  Haiku, Hyper-V, Poetry, Virtualization, Windows Server 2012

  Haiku, Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Poetry, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Zen

• Windows Server 2012 Haiku

  In 2009 there was a contest to write haiku about Windows Server 2008R2.  On Monday I was in a meeting with a colleague who reminded me of this, and I went back to my blog to see if I could find my original entries (A Windows 2008 R2 Haiku!).  It got me thinking… what would…

  Mitch Garvis

  October 16, 2012

  Haiku, MinShell, Poetry, Server Core, Windows Server 2012

  Haiku, Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Poetry, Windows Server 2012, Zen

• Poetry! Haiku of the day

  This came across my Twitter feed today and made me laugh: Haikus are easy But sometimes they don’t make sense Refrigerator It made me laugh, and it’s Friday… so let’s call this the Friday Funny!  Have a great week-end everyone!

  Mitch Garvis

  July 22, 2011

  Friday Funny, Haiku, Poetry