I just received this from a poet friend, thought that the Microsoft devotees on this thread might smile:
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft messages
with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each
poem has only three lines, 17 syllables: 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in
the second, 5 in the third. Haiku is used to communicate a timeless message
often achieving a wistful, yearning, and powerful insight through extreme
brevity.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
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Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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The Website you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
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You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao--until
You bring fresh toner.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
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Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank. |
