>In Japan, they've replaced the impersonal and >unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry >messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. >Each poem has only 3 lines, 17 syllables: >five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, >five in the third. Haikus 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 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 has 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. > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger >http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ == ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizened funereal spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?" - The Vampire Armand, ANNE RICE ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ _____________________________________________________________ Wala kang email? Libre lang dito -- Pinoy Kasi! http://www.pinoykasi.com/