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Some programmers in Japan have replaced the impersonal and

unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poems.

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.

Haiku's are used to communicate a timeless message, often

achieving a wistful yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity

- the essence of Zen.

Here are the new error messages, haiku style:

Your file was so big.

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.

The website 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.