* Microsoft Hates Me

Abort, Retry, Fail?

We’re in the middle of the Valentine’s Day Blizzard of 2007, I was trying to get something filed with the USPTO (i.e. mailed at the USPS across the street from our office), and this happened:

Then I tried to kill a process, and that process hung, etc. Note that the CPU usage is only 2%. Lovely. These Windows errors are like the DOS “Abort, Retry, Fail?” errors with a prettier user interface.