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In Japan, the Sony Vaio machines have replaced the impersonal
and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own haikus.

Haikus are three lines.

   The first line has five syllables,
   The second line has seven syllables.
   The third line has five again.

   5-7-5.

    Send out your haiku.
    Then see how long it will take
    To get back to you.

You are invited to add your own creation to the end of this set,
delete the top entry, and distribute to ten or more colleagues.

Doing so will not bring you fortune, fame, or great wealth.
Breaking the chain will entail no dire consequences.
However, you might bring a bit of good cheer to those more or less fortunate than yourself.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the blue screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.


A file that 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.


ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.


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.


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.

Bleakness and cold sweep
Swiftly through the firewall that
Has caught a virus.


Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.


Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

Your hard-drive crashes,
and you expect sympathy?
Don't get me started.


That dll does
Not exist on your hard drive.
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