Computer Error Message Haiku
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at http://www.salon.com/21st/rose/1998/02/24straight.html. --EricJablow Use the Wayback Machine to find the sources mentioned above: Challengehttp://web.archive.org/web/20080830051532/http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/01/26chal.html Haikus Ihttp://web.archive.org/web/20110822021515/http://www.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html Haikus IIhttp://web.archive.org/web/20101211195815/http://www.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal3.html Followuphttp://web.archive.org/web/20110818224042/http://www.salon.com/21st/rose/1998/02/24straight.html THE ZEN OF COMPUTERS, THE ART OF ERROR-- In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful windows error message haiku Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules.
Haiku Error Messages 21st Challenge
Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in
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the third. Haiku is used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity -- the essence of Zen. All but one of these are submissions
Computer Haiku Blue Screen Of Death
for the Salon contest, but whoever put them here didn't put the author's names. BTW if someone knows the last haiku's author please fill it in. Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. -- David J. Liszewski The Website you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. -- Joy Rothke Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order haiku computer program shall return. -- Suzie Wagner ABORTED effort: Close all that you have. You ask way too much. -- Mike Hagler Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. -- Peter Rothman Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. -- Margaret Segall First snow, then silence. This thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully. -- Simon Firth With searching comes loss And the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. -- Howard Korder The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao, until You bring fresh toner. -- Bill Torcaso Stay the patient course Of little worth is your ire The network is down -- David Ansel A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone. -- James Lopez Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. -- David Dixon You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here. -- Cass Whittington Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will. -- Francis Heaney Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. -- Judy Birmingham Serious e
, including the names of the authors of all the individual haiku. Not long after they first came out, in February 1998, email versions started circulating. At first they were just unattributed lists of the haiku, but after a while haiku computer bag people started embellishing them with the UL that Sony had created these for their Vaio operating internet haiku system. [My thanks to Chris Wesling for providing this attribution information] Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available on its Vaio it haiku stephen king PC. Instead of producing the cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows and DOS systems, Sony's chairman Asai Tawara said, "We intend to capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has been, until now, http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ComputerErrorHaiku an operating system that reflects Western cultural hegemony. For example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry." The chairman went on to give examples of Sony's new error messages: A file that big? . . . It might be very useful . . . But now it is gone. You seek a Web site . . . It cannot be located . . . Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within . https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/joke/haiku.htm . . Stop, reflect, and reboot . . . Order shall return. Aborted effort . . . Close all that you have worked on . . . You ask way too much. 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 . . . The presence of absence . . . "JuneSales.doc" not found. The Tao that is seen . . . Is not the true Tao . . . Until you bring fresh toner. Windows NT crashed . . . The Blue Screen of Death . . . No one hears your screams. 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 . . . Page not found. Out of memory . . . We wish to hold the whole sky, . . . But we never will. Having been erased, . . . The documents you are seeking . . . Must now be retyped. Serious
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