Computer Haiku

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 sentence, 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. ________________________ Your file was so 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. ------------------------------ Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. ------------------------------- Windows NT crash'd. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No-one hears your screams. ------------------------------- Yesterday it work'd. 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.