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Haiku and the Art of Computing

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In Japan, they are considering replacing the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules: Five Syllables, seven syllables, five syllables.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

The Website you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.

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by on January 16, 2006  •  Permalink
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Posted by Alan B. Combs on January 16, 2006

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The Ten Best Stressed Puns of 2002

THE INTERNATIONAL SAVE THE PUN FOUNDATION brings you, FOR A MEDIA RELIEF (As in press and release) the

The Ten Best?Stressed Puns of 2002 which have just been announced by Norman Gilbert, the Chairman of the Bored of this the world’s largest apocryphal society. So many entries were nominated this, the twentieth year of selection, that they had to be stored in two bins; The “MIGHT HAVE BIN” and the “HAS BIN.”

We saw the Eiffel Tower flying from Paris … Read the rest...

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by on January 1, 2003  •  Permalink
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Posted by Brian P. Combs on January 1, 2003

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