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via my mentor Judy Cote
In Japan, machines have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese Haiku poetry:
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Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. |
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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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A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. |
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ABORTED effort: Close all that you have worked on. You ask way too much. |
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Yesterday it worked Today it is not working Windows is like that. |
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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. |
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Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. |
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Problem has occurred exactly what I won't say press OK to close. - Matthew Temple |
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Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. |
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