[Buddha-l] Haiku Microsoft Error Messages

Katherine Masis twin_oceans at yahoo.com
Mon May 24 11:39:21 MDT 2010


Couldn't resist sharing this.
 
Katherine Masis
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In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft 
error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry.  
 
http://www.davidenglish.com/jar.html) 
 
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

The Web site you seek
Can not be located, but
Countless more exist.

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.

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.

I ate your Web page.
Forgive me; it was tasty
And tart on my tongue.
 
http://www.davidenglish.com/jar.html 


      


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