To brighten up your day?
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in the silence of a dead computer ...
Japanese Haiku are short poems with only 17 syllables, in three lines (five syllables in the first line, seven in the second and five in the third).
A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone.
Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.
The Tao that is seen ... Is not the true Tao until ... You bring fresh toner.
Aborted effort. Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much.
With searching comes loss ... and the presence of absence: My novel? not found.
A crash reduces ... your expensive computer ... to a simple stone.
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.
Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent and reboot. Order shall return.
First snow, then silence. This thousand dollar screen dies ... so beatifully.
The Web site you seek ... cannot be located but ... countless more exist.
Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.
Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down.
You step in the stream. But the water has moved on. This page is not here.
Three things are certain: ... death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. ... Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Unknown original source, seen in a staff newsletter, suggesting that in Japan these messages replace the standard Microsoft error messages.
I was always making notes on scraps of paper about tips and facts I'd read in books and magazines, seen on the Internet or on TV. So this is my paperless filing system for all those bits of information I want to access easily. (Please note: I live in the UK, so any financial or legal information relates only to the UK.)