A rather dubious, but welcome message reached the email boxes of exasperated PC users this week. In a magnanimous gesture, it appears Sony has announced a new operating system for its portable PC, the Vaio. It has replaced the cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows 95, 3.1, and DOS operating systems, with soothing Japanese haiku poetry. Examples include:
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
