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[at-l] Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:08:49 -0400



Felix will enjoy these, tho' not Trail related, we are using computers to
discuss the Trail, so maybe it is?   No Haiku-er, Coosa


JAPANESE PC ERROR MESSAGES

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese Haiku
poetry, each only 17 syllables, five syllables in the first
line, seven in the second, five in the third ...


   A file that big?
   It might be very useful.
   But now it is gone.


   The Web site you seek
   Can not be located but
   Countless more exist.


   Chaos reigns within.
   Reflect, repent, and reboot.
   Order shall return.


   Aborted effort:
   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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