New Error Messages

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hi y'all
I may get busted by the ridecamp police but I just received this email
again and since we've talked about computer hassles I thought y'all
would get a laugh out of this as I did-- twice.

> Poetry - a more personal and enlightening method to deal with the
> information age....
> 
> Tokyo, Japan, May 20 - Sony has announced its own computer operating
> system now available on its hot new portable PC called the Vaio. Instead
> of  producing the cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's
> Windows  and DOS systems, Sony's chairman Asai Tawara said, "We intend
> to capture  the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what
> has been, until  now, an operating system that reflects Western cultural
> hegemony. For example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
> Microsoft error messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry." The haiku
> messages are just as informative as Microsoft's and they make you pause
> just long enough that you're able to fight the impulse to put a fist
> through the screen. The chairman went on to give examples of the error
> messages:
> 
> A file that big?
> It might be very useful.
> But now it is gone.
> 
> You seek a Web site.
> It cannot be located.
> Countless more exist.
> 
> Chaos reigns within.
> Stop, reflect, 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.
> The presence of absence.
> "June Sales.doc" not found.
> 
> The Tao that is seen
> Is not the true Tao
> Until you bring fresh toner.
> 
> Windows NT crashed.
> The Blue Screen of Death.
> No one hears your screams.
> 
> 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.
> Page not found.
> 
> Out of memory.
> We wish to hold the whole sky,
> But we never will.
> 
> Having been erased,
> The document you are seeking
> Must now be retyped.
> 
> Serious error.
> All shortcuts have disappeared.
> Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
> 
> --
> Debbi Kulick
> The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.

-- 
Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of TLA Halynov
http://www.stormnet.com/~woa
I've learned....that life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it
gets to the end, the faster it goes. Smell the roses!


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