[ale] Microsoft haiku...(OT)

[Kevin Karst]

  These are funny and artistic.  They don't originate
in Japan.  Just keeping you honest.

--- "Brian J. Dowd" <bdowd at dentfirst.com> wrote:
> 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, 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.
> -----------------------------------------
> 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.
> -----------------------------------------
> Chaos reigns within.
> Reflect, repent, and reboot.
> Order shall return.
> ----------------------------------------
> Program aborting:
> Close all that you have worked on.
> You ask far too much.
> -----------------------------------------
> 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.
> ------------------------------------------
> The Window closes.
> Nothing will open it now.
> Everything lost.
> ------------------------------------------
> The Web site you seek
> Cannot be located, but
> Countless more exist.
> -----------------------------------------
> 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.
> 


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