Re: Haiku error messages

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: John Shoch <shoch () alloyventures com>
Date: July 20, 2007 12:34:57 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com
Cc: John Shoch <shoch () alloyventures com>
Subject: RE: [IP] Haiku error messages

These are really wonderful...but not new.
And no, they have not really "replaced the impersonal and unhelpful  
Microsoft error messages."
That's just another myth, swooping through the Internet,  
dropping.....whatever.

These were initially the result of a contest in Salon, about 9 yrs ago:

http://archive.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/haiku.asp

John Shoch
Alloy Ventures

-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:13 PM
To: ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: [IP] Haiku error messages

From: Shannon McElyea <shannonm () gmail com>
Date: July 19, 2007 10:52:50 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Haiku error messages

(Not sure it’s true, but these are excellent)

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
error
messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each only 17 syllables, 5
syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third.

Oh, a file that 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.

Aborted effort:
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:
Your 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.

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.



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