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Old 09-27-2002, 08:38 PM   #1
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Post Hiaku in M$ program in Japan!

This is pretty old but have a look anyway:


I cannot vouch for the authenticity of what follows but it is too good
not to share
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, 7

in the

second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless

message,

often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through

extreme

brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan.



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.



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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.



---------------------------------------------------

Your file was so big.

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.



-------------------------------------------



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.



---------------------------------------------------



Isn't that better than "your computer has performed an illegal

operation?"






FYI this is an old e-mail but it's still fun.
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Old 09-27-2002, 08:58 PM   #2
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I like those a lot better
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Old 09-27-2002, 11:21 PM   #3
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almost none of those are Haikus =\
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Old 09-28-2002, 01:51 AM   #4
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Those made my daily M$ hating
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Old 10-04-2002, 11:07 PM   #5
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Well "One Winged Angel" then that just shows everyone, that no only can M$ no program an OS for Sh+t, they can't write poems eaither, not a very good company IMO.
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"CONSOLE WARS IX"
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