Hi, I found this yesterday, and thought some might appreciate.
A Haiku poem has three lines and only 17 syllables: 5 in the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. Haikus often achieve a wistful yearning or powerful insight through their extreme brevity, as illustrated by these tech error messages:
The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. -------------------------------------------- Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. -------------------------------------------- Windows crashed again. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. -------------------------------------------- Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. -------------------------------------------- Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. -------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------- Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. -------------------------------------------- Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. ============================= There is an old proverb that says just about anything you want it to. -- Sent from my Ubuntu computer _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
