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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 1st line,
7 in the 2nd, 5 in the 3rd. They are used to communicate a timeless
message, often achieving a wistful, Yearning
and powerful insight through extreme brevity. |
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The
Website you seek
Cannot
be located, but
Countless
more exist.
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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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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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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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You
step in the stream,
But
the water has moved on.
Your
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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Three
things are certain:
Death,
taxes and lost data.
Guess
which has occurred.
