One of my gifts for Christmas was a sci-fi compilation that included a short story by Charles Stross. I read a lot of techno-sci-fi, William Gibson wanna be stuff and the original CyberPunk short story.

This is the first modern version that I’ve read.

Well, this is actually my 701st story. The Paycheck before Christmas one got the lucky 700 somehow. Welcome to all new readers, to the old ones, thanks for sticking around.

by Richard B. Johnson:

T`Was the night before payday and all through the house,
Not a computer was working as I clicked the mouse;
The screen turned blue and out slewed some text,
Showing register dumps and addresses in hex;