In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict
construction rules.Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables - five
syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five
in the third. Haikus are used to communicate a timeless message, often
achieving a wistful, yearning, and powerful insight through extreme
brevity. What better answer for the impersonal computer. Here is a
sample:
The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
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.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank
Comments
Re: Microsoft Haiku
For atrox:
Your data is gone
Blame Microsoft for your loss
Switch to Linux now
Re: Microsoft Haiku
If only I could
Play my Neverwinter Nights,
I would. For now, no.
Re: Microsoft Haiku
very nice both are
anyone reminded yoda
switch you must now
Re: Microsoft Haiku
N W N comes,
Linux client is promised.
Did you try WineX?