[Sheflug] A little light hearted banter

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

I received this in my mail today. Maybe Stephen Turnbull can confirm or deny

I hope you don't consider this spam.

 >
 > JAPANESE PC ERROR MESSAGES
 >
 > In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
 > Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese Haiku
 > poetry, each only 17 syllables, five syllables in the first
 > line, seven in the second, five in the third ...
 >
 >
 >  Serious error.
 >    All shortcuts have disappeared.
 >    Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
 >    A file that big?
 >    It might be very useful.
 >    But now it is gone.
 >
 >
 >    The Web site you seek
 >    Can not be located but
 >    Countless more exist.
 >
 >
 >    Chaos reigns within.
 >    Reflect, repent, and reboot.
 >    Order shall return.
 >
 >
 >    Aborted effort:
 >    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.
 >
 >    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.
 >
 >
 >


Steve


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