Zen Error Messages

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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 are 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.




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