> In Japan, the Microsoft error messages have been replaced 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 wistful, 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.
> ----------------------------------
> 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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>
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