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Roger
>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.
>-------------------------------------------
>The Web site you seek
>Cannot be located, but
>Countless more exist.
>--------------------------------------------
>Chaos reigns within.
>Reflect, repent, and reboot.
>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.
>---------------------------------------------------
>First snow, then silence.
>This thousand dollar screen dies
>So beautifully.
>---------------------------------------------------
>With searching comes loss
>And the presence of absence:
>"My Novel" not found.
>--------------------------------------------------
>The Tao that is seen
>Is not the true Tao-until
>You bring fresh toner.
>-------------------------------------------------
>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
>
