From sky_cooper@hotmail.com Thu Apr 10 08:07:32 2003
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 03:01:04 -0400
From: sky cooper <sky_cooper@hotmail.com>
To: gelbardn@skylab.org
Subject: fwd: haiku
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>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 17 syllables; 5 syllables in
>the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to
>communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning
>and powerful insight through extreme brevity.
>
>Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan.
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>The Web site you seek
>Cannot be located, but
>Countless more exist.
>--------------------------------------------
>
>Chaos reigns within.
>Reflect, repent, and r! eboot.
>Order shall return.
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>Program aborting:
>Close all that you have worked on.
>You ask far too much.
>
>------------------------------------------------
>Windows NT crashed.
>I am the Blue Screen of Death.
>No one hears your screams.
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>Yesterday it worked.
>Today it is not working.
>Windows is like that.
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>Your file was so big.
>It might be very useful.
>But now it is gone.
>
>-------------------------------------------
>Stay the patient course.
>Of little worth is your ire.
>The network is down.
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>A crash reduces
>Your expensive computer
>To a simple stone.
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>Three things are certain:
>Death, taxes and lost data.
>Guess which has occurred! .
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>You step in the stream,
>But the water has moved on.
>This page is not here.
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>Out of memory.
>We wish to hold the whole sky,
>But we never will.
>
>------------------------------------------------
>Having been erased,
>The document you're seeking
>Must now be retyped.
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>Serious error.
>All shortcuts have disappeared.
>Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Now , isn't that better than "Your computer has performed an illegal
>operation"?
>
>
>
>
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