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Hi Mike,
Thought you might find this amusing - a colleague of mine sent it to me
shortly after I discovered that my Psion Revo was knackered and had lost 15
months worth of data / contacts etc etc!
Thanks for your help the other evening - I went onto the Novatech website &
did a custom build so I'm going to ring them today & see what's cheapest!
Speak to you soon no doubt - all our love to Helen & Scott & hope you all
have a safe journey to & from Plymouth this weekend
Cheers
Anita
----- Original Message -----
From: <Anita.BurdettClarke@prudential.co.uk>
To: <abc@ukgateway.net>
Sent: 04 October 2002 11:25
Subject: The Tao of Shared Server Rationalisation
----- Forwarded by Anita BurdettClarke/READING/Prudential on 04/10/02 11:25
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Mike Scott
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Transformation Subject: The Tao of Shared
Server Rationalisation
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04/10/02 11:20
Thought this might help you find inner peace....given your recent data loss
experiences..!
>
> In Japan, the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages have
> been replaced with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict
> construction rules. Each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in
> the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to
> communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning
> and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual
> error messages from Japan. Below, the essence of Zen:
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Your file was so big.
> It might be very useful.
> But now it is gone.
> -------------------------------------------
> The Web site you seek
> Cannot be located, but
> Countless more exist.
> --------------------------------------------
> Chaos reigns within.
> Reflect, repent, and reboot.
> Order shall return.
> -----------------------------------------------
> Program aborting:
> Close all that you have worked on.
> You ask far too much.
> ------------------------------------------------
> Windows NT crashed.
> I am the Blue Screen of Death.
> No one hears your screams.
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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