In the wake of the Federal
antitrust suit against Microsoft, Sony has announced its own computer operating
system. Here are Sony's haiku error messages for the new computers:
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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.
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.
First snow, then
silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
With searching comes
loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
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 in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: "File not found."
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky.
But we never will.