OT: HUMOR: New Microsoft Messages

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed Jun 7 15:55:57 2000

>
>New Microsoft error messages:
>
> 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, five in
> the third.
> ------------------------
> Your file was so big.
> It might be very useful.
> But now it is gone.
> ------------------------
> The Web site you seek
> Can not 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:
> "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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