jinx
06-12-2002, 07:23 PM
Zen Haiku for Computer Users
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 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second line, 5 in the third line. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.
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....
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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 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second line, 5 in the third line. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.
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....
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