Greetings,
I hope no one objects to this little joke.  I know these are still sad and
tense times, but a smile makes life easier....

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>
>
> In Japan, Sony Vaio Computers have replaced the impersonal and
>   unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku
>   poetry, each only 17 syllables.
>
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>
> A file that big?
>
> It might be very useful.
>
> But now it is gone.
>
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>
> The Web site you seek
>
> Can not be located but
>
> Countless more exist.
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>
> Chaos reigns within.
>
> Reflect, repent, and reboot.
>
> Order shall return.
>
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>
> ABORTED effort:
>
> Close all that you have worked on.
>
> You ask way too much.
>
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>
> Windows NT crashed.
>
> I am the Blue Screen of Death.
>
> No one hears your screams.
>
> ------------------------
>
> Yesterday it worked.
>
> Today it is not working.
>
> Windows is like that.
>
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>
> First snow, then silence.
>
> This thousand dollar screen dies
>
> So beautifully.
>
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>
> With searching comes loss
>
> And the presence of absence:
>
> "My Novel" not found.
>
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>
> The Tao that is seen
>
> Is not the true Tao, until
>
> You bring fresh toner.
>
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>
> Stay the patient course.
>
> Of little worth is your ire.
>
> The network is down.
>
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>
> A crash reduces
>
> Your expensive computer
>
> To a simple stone.
>
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>
> Three things are certain:
>
> Death, taxes, and lost data.
>
> Guess which has occurred.
>
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>
> You step in the stream,
>
> But the water has moved on.
>
> This page is not here.
>
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>
> Out of memory.
>
> We wish to hold the whole sky,
>
> But we never will.
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>
> 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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>
>
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