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-----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 < < < < < <<<<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. < < < ****************************** < "Never attribute to malice < that which is adequately < explained by stupidity." < ... Hanlon's Razor < ****************************** <
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