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In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal 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. Haiku is used to communicate a timeless message often achieving a wi****l, 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 Website 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. -------------- Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. -------------- Serious error. All documents have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. ---------------- |