Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:04:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] microsoft
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

In light of some of the comments made about microsoft,
I thought people might find the following email that a
friend from law school sent me amusing:

HAIKU by Dave Kooi <dave at kooi.org>

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.

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