#103395 - 05/15/03 10:56 PM
Another one of those e-mails
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Jackie
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Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 11,613
Louisville, Kentucky
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In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They're used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.
Here are 13 actual error messages from Japan......
The Web site 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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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which one has occurred.
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You step into 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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#103398 - 05/16/03 09:02 AM
Re: Another one of those e-mails
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Capfka
Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok
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"Microsoft" is actually an ancient Navajo word for "what follows contains countless undocumented errors". Hence, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Money, yadda, yadda.,
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#103401 - 05/16/03 06:04 PM
Re: Another one of those e-mails
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vanguard
journeyman
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journeyman
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Posts: 87
Ohio
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Jackie,
Thanks for the Haiku - the computer dude here loved it! And then when I complimented him on some clear and concise instructions that he emailed to me, he wrote his own haiku:
You make me smile twice
On a day that is gloomy
I will not forget
I'd like to give him credit for the poem, but I'll just say "thanks, Jeff!" and not identify him further.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -Ursula K. Le Guin, author (1929- )
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