[lug] OT: M$ Error Msg through Haiku poetry

Ferdinand Schmid fschmid at archenergy.com
Thu Jan 31 13:38:15 MST 2002


HI,
This message made it to my desk today.  You just need to have humor when 
working with computers, especially when using this OS from this company 
out North-West ;)

Ferdinand


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, 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.

 > > >
 > > > -------------------------------------------
 > > >
 > > > 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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