Time for a Little Reflection

[Lorraine Pozzi]

<snip>  Sony's chairman
Asai Tawara said, "We intend to capture the high ground by putting a
human,  Japanese face on what has been, until now, an operating system
that  reflects Western cultural hegemony.  For example, we have replaced
the usual  impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with our
own Japanese  haiku poetry."

 The chairman went on to give examples of Sony's new error messages:

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  Chaos reigns within.
  Reflect, repent, and reboot.
  Order shall return.
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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
  cannot be located but
  endless others exist
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  ABORTED effort:
  Close all that you have.
  You ask way too much.
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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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  Windows NT crashed.
  I am the Blue Screen of Death.
  No one hears your screams.
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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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  Yesterday it worked
  Today it is not working
  Windows is like that
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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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  Having been erased,
  The document you're seeking
  Must now be retyped.
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  Rather than a beep
  Or a rude error message,
  These words:  "File not found."
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  Serious error.
  All shortcuts have disappeared.
  Screen.  Mind.  Both are blank.
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  Out of memory.
  We wish to hold the whole sky,
  But we never will.
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