Windows Haiku

[Wilber_Stool]

Don't know if you've seen these. They've been around for a while.



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 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.