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July 20, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Windows Error Haikus

TAGS: Freaky Friday

Got these off of Dave Farber's Interesting People list. Sent in by Shannon McElyea (thank you), these aren't new, but they're too funny not to share.

Supposedly, these haiku poems have replaced the usual error messages on some Japanese Windows computers. (Most likely a digi-urban legend, but still funny.) If you feel like counting, it's 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second line, and 5 in the third for a total of 17.

Oh, a file that 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.

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:
Your 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.

Posted by Oliver Rist on July 20, 2007 02:44 PM

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