Computer Haiku

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The following is a fun posting of haiku from http://www.rense.com. Author(s) unknown.  Enjoy!

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 17 syllables – 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. Haiku communicates a timeless, often achieving a wistful, yearning, and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are some actual error messages from Japan.

Aren’t these better than “your computer has performed an illegal operation?”

• 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.

• Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

• 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.

• 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.

• I ate your Web page.
Forgive me; it was tasty
and tart on my tongue.