Error Haiku...

The Loony Bin ( loonies@bloodaxe.com )
Tue, 3 Aug 1999 01:53:11 +0100


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Hiya Loonies...

Here is some wonderful Haiku poetry...this one comes from Lawrence...

Wishes & Dreams...

- ANDREA
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  ------- Forwarded foolishness follows -------
     
     
Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available on
its hot new portable PC called the Vaio. Instead of producing the
cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows 95, 3.1,and
DOS operating systems, Sony's chairman Asai Tawara said, "We intend to
capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has
been-until now-an operating system that reflects Western cultural
hegemony. For example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
Microsoft error messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry.
     
The chairman went on to give examples of Sony's new error messages: 

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

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     The Web site you seek
     cannot be located
     but endless others exist

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

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     ABORTED effort:
     Close all that you have.
     You ask way too much.

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     First snow, then silence.
     This thousand dollar screen
     dies so beautifully.

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     With searching comes loss
     and the presence of absence:
     "My Novel" not found.

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     The Tao that is seen
     Is not the true Tao, until
     You bring fresh toner.

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     Windows NT crashed.
     I am the Blue Screen of Death.
     No one hears your screams.

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     Stay the patient course
     of little worth is your ire
     The network is down

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     A crash reduces
     your expensive computer to
     a simple stone.

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     Yesterday it worked
     Today it is not working
     Windows is like that.

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     Three things are certain:
     Death, taxes, and lost data.
     Guess which has occurred.

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     You step in the stream,
     but the water has moved on.
     This page is not here.

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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.
          

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