[Newspoetry] When technology fails us (fwd)

[Paul Kotheimer]

this late breaking bit of NewsPoetry news comes to us from Animal Rights
activist and recording studio guru Mark Rubel.

perhaps you've seen it before.  perhaps not.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 00:06:20 -0500
From: Mark Rubel <pogostudio at shout.net>
Subject: When technology fails us

> Subject: When technology fails us
>
> "From a source at Oxford University:
>
> In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error
> messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction
> rules - each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in
> the second line, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless
> message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through
> extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan."
>
>
> 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.
>
>



> Isn't that better than "your computer has performed an illegal
>
> operation?"