Sorry for the SPAM to our TECH list, but I thought that the following is amusing (sent to me by one of my Buddhist Nun neighbors): >HAIKU ERROR MESSAGES > >Imagine if, instead of incomprehensible geeky text strings, your >computer produced error messages in Haiku... > >First snow, then silence. >This thousand dollar screen dies >so beautifully. > >With searching comes loss >and the presence of absence: >"My Novel" not found. > >A file that big? >It might be very useful. >But now it is gone. > >The Web site you seek >cannot be located. >But endless others exist. > >Chaos reigns within. >Reflect, repent, and reboot. >Order shall return. > >Aborted effort. >Close all that you have. >You ask far too much. > >The Tao that is seen >Is not the true Tao, until >you bring fresh toner. > >Windows NT crashed. >I am 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. > >Yesterday it worked. >Today it is not working. >Windows is like that. > >Three things are certain: >Death, taxes, and lost data. >Guess which has occurred. > >You step into 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. > >Rather than a beep >or a rude error message, >These words, "Files not found." > >Serious error. >All shortcuts have disappeared. >Screen. Mind. Both are blank. >