[Gatesedge] Haiku

[Carolyn Young]

This is a little bit off topic, but as we all use computers I thought you
all might enjoy it anyway.   And Haiku is period I think.

Haiku for Computers


The Japanese 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, or powerful insight through
extreme brevity.  Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan.

     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....


Carolyn Young
MIS Department
Goodman Mfg.
713.861.2500  ext 425