Most of these came from:
http://www.salon.com/21st/rose/1998/02/24straight.html
and while on the subject the spam haiku archive:
http://pemtropics.mit.edu/~jcho/spam/
Also, anyone who is interested in this type of thing might also be
interested in:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/TPC/1999/Coy/Paper.html
which won the Larry Wall award at last year's Perl conference.
Regards,
Jon McCormack
Centre for Electronic Media Art
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Monash University, Clayton.
Australia.
George Bailey wrote:
> The following was passed to me by a computer person:
>
> - George
>
> In Japan, Sony Vaio machines have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
> Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry. Each only
> 17 syllables.
>
> 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
> Can not be located.
> 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.
>
> 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.
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