Haiku on the screen... > > In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and > unhelpful Microsoft > error messages with their own Japanese haiku > poetry... > > ------------------------ > > A file that big? > It might be very useful. > But now it is gone. > > ------------------------ > > The Web site you seek > Can not be located but > Countless more exist. > ------------------------ > > Chaos reigns within. > Reflect, repent, and reboot. > Order shall return. > > ------------------------ > > ABORTED effort: > 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. > >
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