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To: Dale Baker who wrote (31029)	9/11/2002 9:49:33 AM
From: stun	Respond to of 118717

Made me smile: 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 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are 15 actual error messages from Japan that are the essence of Zen: Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. --------------------------------------------------- The Web site 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. --------------------------------------------------- Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. --------------------------------------------------- Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. --------------------------------------------------- Aren't these better than "You have performed an illegal operation"? rgds stun