A contest to replace
the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages
led to the following beauties. (Some tiny editing done.)
(Formal Haiku poetry has strict construction
rules: Each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in
the second line, 5 in the third line. They are used to communicate a timeless
message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through
extreme brevity.)
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
David J. Liszewski
Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
David Carlson
The web-site you seek
Cannot be located,
but Countless more exist.
Joy Rothke
|
Errors have occurred.
Look within for where and why.
Lazy programmers.
Charlie Gibbs
Serious
error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen, mind, both are blank....
Ian Hughes
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Chass Whittington
Program aborting:
Close all you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
|
Windows
NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Peter Rothman |
With searching
comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
Howard Korder |
|
No keyboard present
Hit F1 to continue
Zengineering?
Jim Griffith |
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao - until
You bring fresh toner.
|
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
Margaret Segall |
|
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
David Dixon |
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
|
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
James Lopez
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
David Ansel
| (h@0$
reigns W
! T H ! N.
rEFLEcT,
repent,
& reb00t.
Order
SHAll
return.
Suzie Wagner
|
First
snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
Simon
Firth
A really nice and funny Zen website can be found at http://www.do-not-zzz.com/
