For those of us who find this sort of thing humorous, here's a little more computer haiku:

Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?

I'm sorry, there's - um -
insufficient - what's-it-called?
The term eludes me...

The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.

Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.

wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault.

To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy


Art Frank
Manager of Information Systems
OHS Foundation
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>>> Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]> 12/17/98 03:34pm >>>
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:34:44 -0600 (CST)
From: "Patrick R. Collins" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Microsoft Haiku

Yes, it's off topic, but at least it's funny.

> A little humor:
>
>
> 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 95, 3.1, and DOS operating 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 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.
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> 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 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
> and the presence of absence:
> "My Novel" not found.
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> The Tao that is seen
> Is not the true Tao, until
> You bring fresh toner.
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> Windows NT crashed.
> I am 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.
> 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.