Contributed by Kevin Riddle and James Lo

H A I K U to replace
Microsoft error messages for Windows

To have no errors
 Would be life without meaning:
 No struggle, no joy.
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A file that big?
 It might be very useful.
 But now it is gone.
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 The Web site you seek
 cannot be located but
 countless more exist.
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Login incorrect.
 Only perfect spellers
 May enter this system.
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 Chaos reigns within.
 Reflect, repent, and reboot.
 Order shall return.
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 ABORTED effort:
 Close all that you have worked on.
 You ask way too much.
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 Yesterday it worked.
 Today it is not working.
 Windows is like that.
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 First snow, then silence.
 This thousand-dollar screen dies
 so beautifully.
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 With searching comes loss
 and the presence of absence:
 "My Novel" not found.
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The code was willing,
 It considered your request,
 But the chips were weak.
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 Windows NT crashed.
 I am the Blue Screen of Death.
 No one hears your screams.
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 Stay the patient course;
 Of little worth is your ire,
 The network is down.
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There is a chasm
 Of carbon and silicon
 This software can't bridge.
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 A crash reduces
 Your expensive computer
 To a simple stone.
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 Three things are certain:
 Death, taxes, and lost data.
 Guess which has occurred.
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 You step in the stream,
 But the water has moved on.
 This page is not here.
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 Out of memory.
 We wish to hold the whole sky,
 But we never will.
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 Having been erased,
 The document you're seeking
 Must now be retyped.
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 Serious error.
 All shortcuts have disappeared.
 Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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Keyboard not found.
 Hit F1 to continue.
 Zen engineering.
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 Printer not ready.
 Maybe fatal error.
 Have pen handy?
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 The Tao that is seen
 Is not the true Tao, until
 You bring fresh toner.
 
 
 
 



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