Saturday, September 27, 2003

Zen Microsoft Error Messages

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>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 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 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