The following email appeared in a sister list called senco-forum,
which is for staff in the pre-16 sector. I thought some of you might
like it as it has that end-of-term-approaches feeling. Because I read
my mail going backwards in time I thought the list members had
gone loopy because of the rash of inscrutible i.e.daft messages they
were sending each other. Then I found the source. Perhaps we too
can rise to the challenge. Anyone know the rules of Haiku? Do they
have a specific form like sonnets?
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> Dear listees
>
> arrived today
> via solution focused
> therapy list
>
> enjoy
> (or not)
>
> Paul Myszor
>
> Senior EP
> Kent
> ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >Sony has announced its own computer operating system now
> >available on its hot new portable PC called the Vaio. Instead of
> >producing the cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's
> >Windows and DOS operating systems, 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 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:
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >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.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >Chaos reigns within.
> >Reflect, repent, and reboot.
> >Order shall return.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >Aborted effort.
> >Close all that you have.
> >You ask way too much.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >Yesterday it worked.
> >Today it is not working.
> >Windows is like that.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >First snow, then silence.
> >This thousand dollar screen dies
> >so beautifully.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >With searching comes loss
> >and the presence of absence:
> >"My Novel" not found.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >The Tao that is seen
> >Is not the true Tao, until
> >You bring fresh toner.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >Stay the patient course.
> >Of little worth is your ire.
> >The network is down.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >A crash reduces
> >your expensive computer
> >to a simple stone.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >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.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >Out of memory.
> >We wish to hold the whole sky,
> >But we never will.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >Having been erased,
> >The document you're seeking
> >Must now be retyped.
> >
> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> >
> >Serious error.
> >All shortcuts have disappeared.
> >Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
> >
> >
> >--- End Forwarded Message ---
Here's mine:
Manchester was yesterday
For the chosen ones
Only anxiety remains
Dave Laycock
Head of CCPD
Computer Centre for People with Disabilities
University of Westminster
72 Great Portland Street
London W1N 5AL
tel. 0171-911-5161
fax. 0171-911-5162
WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/
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