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To: TimF who wrote (2346)	3/12/2002 8:44:08 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 21057

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. ----------------------------- 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. ----------------------------- You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here. ----------------------------- 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. ---------------------------- First snow, then silence. This thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully. ----------------------------- The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao--until You bring fresh toner. ----------------------------- Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. ----------------------------- 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.