From: Bill McKenzie [bmckenzie@bsquare.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 3:39 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Time for a break; I have something to share: Some
great haiku!

Simply beautiful :)

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Bill McKenzie



"Jamey Kirby" <jkirby@storagecraft.com> wrote in message news:26296@ntdev...
>
> In some areas of the world, Haiku poetry messages have replaced the
> impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error 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-the essence of Zen:
>
>    -----------------------------------------------
>    Your file was so 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.
>    -----------------------------------------------
>    Program aborting:
>    Close all that you have worked on.
>    You ask far too much.
>    ------------------------------------------------
>    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.
>    ---------------------------------------------------
>    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.
>    --------------------------------------------------
>    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.
>
>
> Jamey Kirby
> StorageCraft, inc.
> jkirby@storagecraft.com
> www.storagecraft.com
>
>
>
>
>



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