Occasionally, I pound a fist on the keyboard for emphasis. These fits are all my computer's fault. I don't react to crashes, errors, freezes and halts well, and I suspect the machine I use has wised up to this. At least I'm not alone. Lately, I've been reading some similar confessions from readers, after we invited subscribers to our e-mail newsletter to send in their own stories of dealing with computer dysfuncationality.
People take crashes personally.
Some correspondents advised sticking with a gentler approach. Come on baby, be nice to me. Computers are pure magic. My data should be the computer's data. Make it more like a television, where you turn it on and maybe wait five seconds, and it's there.