Wilber_Stool
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Sun Dec-19-04 12:50 PM
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Don't know if you've seen these. They've been around for a while.
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 three lines, 17 syllables: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third. Haiku is used to communicate a timeless message often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity -- the essence of Zen: >> ------------------------------------------<< Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. >>-------------------------------------------<< The Website 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. >> --------------------------------------------<< First snow, then silence. This thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully. >> --------------------------------------------<< With searching comes loss And the presence of absence: "My 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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