Microsoft Haikus

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Microsoft Haikus

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 first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are 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.
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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 crash'd.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No-one hears your screams.
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Yesterday it work'd.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
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With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao-until
You bring fresh toner.
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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 has occurred.
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You step in 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.

[My back yard]

Ok, it was in response to someone claiming that chili had to have beans. And I'm a good South Texas no-bean chili gal.

Concerto Grosso

Beans and good chili --
A concerto of drum beats
Enjoyed best alone

[My back yard]

Hey, it still makes me chuckle.

[2Trievers]

Westcoast geek rejoyce
Carnivore dining
Stewardess beware!

[2Trievers]

Airborne geek homebound
Return to peaceful mountains
Soul rejuvenates

[fish hawk]

I hope this goes on
I'm having a lot of fun
Freeper Haikuing.

[afraidfortherepublic]

filing at tech_index.

These are wonderful. Thanks.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Filing tech_index
Everyone can access
Learning is fun

[Prof Engineer]

CheneyChick can't count

she doesn't care

she flunked Poetry

CheneyChick can't count

she is still funny after

two more silly years

[CheneyChick]

Whoa, where did you drag this up from? (I mean, from where did you drag this up?)

[Prof Engineer]

I had bookmarked it in my browser before I signed up at FR. I found it recently and added it to my FR bookmarks, then reread the posts for fun.

[chilepepper]

EULA is long
Wise Microsoft,
My blue screen
Teach me
Great suffering!

[Prof Engineer]

BUMP

let's see what happens

[Professional Engineer]

ping