-----Original Message-----
From: 	"J&J Zufferli" <jzufferli@home.com>@ENRON  
Sent:	Friday, August 10, 2001 10:07 AM
To:	Zufferli, John
Subject:	Fw: Windows Haiku

This is kinda funny.  love, jess
----- Original Message -----
From: "Virginia R Canright" <Virginia.R.Canright@grc.nasa.gov>
To: <wrsmith@u.washington.edu>; <anne@mbay.net>; <dcanright@nps.navy.mil>;
<david_canright@richards.com>; <jzufferli@Home.Com>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:59 AM
Subject: Fwd: Windows Haiku


> Maybe you guys have all seen this missive already, but it was new to me
> today.  I thought some of these lines were funnier than any of the awful
> jokes that get forwarded to me.  (But if you don't think so, I apologize
> for filling your inbox unnecessarily.)
>
> virge
>
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> >>>>Subject: Windows Error Message Haiku
> >>>>
> >>>> >Tokyo, Japan, May 20 - Sony has announced its own computer operating
> >>>> >system now available on its hot new portable PC called the Vaio.
> >>>> >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 -- 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 haiku messages are just as
> >>>> >informative as Microsoft's and they make you pause just long enough
> >>>> >that you're able to fight the impulse to put a fist through the
> >>>> >screen. The chairman went on to give examples of the 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.
> >>>> >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.
> >>>> >"June Sales.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 document you are seeking
> >>>> >Must now be retyped.
> >>>> >
> >>>> >Serious error.
> >>>> >All shortcuts have disappeared.
> >>>> >Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
>
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>                                      "Never attribute to malice
>                                       that which is adequately
>                                       explained by stupidity."
>                                                  ... Hanlon's Razor
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