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From: Alexandra Robbin <>
Subject: [OLDWORDS] Fw: haiku from crem
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:06:40 -0500

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From: "Melungeoness C" <>
To:
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 08:34:44 EST
Subject: haiku from crem

Subject: Computer humor

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
error
messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry:
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A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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The Web site you seek
Can not be located but
Countless more exist.
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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ABORTED effort:
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.
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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.

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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