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In Japan, Sony Vaio machines have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry. Each only 17
syllables.
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> Windows NT crashed.
> I am the Blue Screen of Death.
> No one hears your screams.
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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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> 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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> Stay the patient course.
> Of little worth is your ire.
> The network is down.
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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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