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Old 06-12-2002, 07:23 PM
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Default Ah ! The beauty of Japanese poetry !

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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Old 06-12-2002, 07:39 PM
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Default Re: Ah ! The beauty of Japanese poetry !

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A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

HAHAH!! Man what got into these guys, yeah im sure that everyone that reads these pointless hikus will have a pinpoint area of their computer in which the error exists...lmao!  HAHA!
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Old 06-12-2002, 09:08 PM
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Put a smile on the face before heading home.

Thanks Jinx
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Old 06-14-2002, 02:29 AM
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yeah really...how did u manage to find something like this and do they actually use these kind of messages... if so make sure to tell me the OS so i dont get it, haha!  
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Old 06-15-2002, 04:15 PM
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put a smile on my face too ;D
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Old 06-15-2002, 07:20 PM
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Tell me about it...every time i post a reply on this thread...i read all of them and every single time I cant help my self in cracking up!!!  Geeze these are good, u sure didnt bring a smile to my face, you brough a good laugh out of me!! Good job!
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Old 06-16-2002, 08:06 AM
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Default Re: Ah ! The beauty of Japanese poetry !

poetry and pain often go hand in hand,
windows and crashes too.
i would love my pc if it would churn out such cool sentence.

that really rox ;D


[quote author=jinx link=board=general&num=1023927839&start=0#0 date=06/12/02 at 19:23:59]
Zen Haiku for Computer Users

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank....

[/quote]
this one simply is the best
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Old 06-16-2002, 12:13 PM
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
haha!  are they saying that computers will never have enough memory...haha!  They are very funny...one day there will be super-computers made that will hold more memory that we little techies can handle!          - i like though....
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Old 06-17-2002, 05:32 PM
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me new rig gonna have 512 schweet megs uv speeed-luvin 1066 mhz Kingston Value RDRAM ;D
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Old 06-17-2002, 11:08 PM
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not bad.......not bad at all -=aoC|PRoZaK=-, hope it all worx out for u and if it does...hope u can handel all that!  haha!  lucky you.... ;D
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