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Subject: Japanese Computer Error Messages
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal
and unhelpful Microsoft Error
messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku
poetry has strict construction
rules. Each poem has only three lines, 17
syllables: five syllables in the
first line, seven in the second, five in
the third. Haikus are used to
communicate a timeless message often
achieving a wistful, yearning and
powerful insight through extreme brevity
-- the essence of Zen:
Your file was so big.
It might be very
useful.
But now it is gone.
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The Web site you seek
cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
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Yesterday it
worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
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First snow, then
silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
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With searching
comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
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The Tao that is
seen
Is not the true Tao - until
You bring fresh toner.
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Stay the patient
course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
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A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
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Three things are
certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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You step in the
stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
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Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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