Respect is due to Jonathan Schwartz, chief executive of Sun Microsystems, who announced his resignation on Twitter with a haiku. "Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku," he tweeted earlier this morning, going on to apply the five/seven/five-syllable rule of the Japanese poem to his situation:

"Financial crisis

Stalled too many customers

CEO no more.”

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*What is a haiku?

- haiku, is a form of Japanese poetry