A complete day captured in a single Photograph

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haiku error messages

haiku error messages

Never thought I could sTumble Upon These!!! :)

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again

The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.

Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?

A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.

Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.

This site has been moved.
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
have to delete you.

Wind catches lily
Scatt'ring petals to the wind:
Segmentation fault

ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.

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.

The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist

Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down

A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.

There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge

Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that

To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy

You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

No keyboard present
Hit F1 to continue
Zen engineering?

Hal, open the file
Hal, open the damn file, Hal
open the, please Hal

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.

The ten thousand things
How long do any persist?
Netscape, too, has gone.

Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: "File not found."

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

Collected Quotes by Albert Einstein

Collected Quotes by Albert Einstein

• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
• "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
• "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
• "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
• "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
• "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
• "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
• "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
• "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
• "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
• "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
• "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
• "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
• "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
• "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
• "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
• "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
• "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
• "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
• "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
• "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

The Veil for the Princess

On a busy weekday morning sitting in the auto-rickshaw on my way to office.
I wasn't doing anything in particular, neither reading ET nor any novel, just gazing out dreamily, lost in my world as the rick was zipping away on the last flyover. A rickshaw overtakes, and while over-taking the driver as well as the passenger look back throw a curious look inside my rick and go ahead. Looks are thrown on the busy fast flyovers only when there's a fight or accident or some celebrity or something unusual... Then what was that something that made them look into this rickshaw. I wondered for a while, looked around, everything seemed monotonously normal. And then I forgot all about it.

Some other day, I was again in some rick-shaw, another weekday, going to office in all that traffic, had already left early. So was a bit more alert looking out and hoping that the rick-shaw driver finds the right spaces and drives through as soon as possible. The usual slow moving traffic near signals(right on the day when you are already late... is it a coincidence always?, neways!...) gave enough time to curse those who don't drive well enough or those who are busy chatting on their cell phones. Suddenly the driver's attention is diverted and he looks in the neighbouring rick, I too looked(obviously coz I didn't want him to miss the next lil tini-mini space so that we can inch further ahead!). And what do we see...

A pair of neatly manicured feet adorned with some really chic footwear, the toe nails flawlessly painted in some shade of purple. With an anklet on the left leg, both the legs in a lady-like posture... But that rickshaw moves by some inches ahead!
As if opportunity was waiting our rick-shaw moves ahead in a few seconds. A fine lady clothed in purple salwar kameez, with accessories complimenting her formal look and a 9-5 daily makeup to complete it all. So that's it!
When they see the feet of a lady that they get a glimpse of, there's the curiosity to see her too. If they are the feet of some old or middle aged lady, of course they wouldn't have bothered. But if the feet look even 'ok' , the possibility of seeing a pretty face increases. And that's how they turn back their heads just for a second or two to have a look. Passenger, if of the same type will also try to get his share of the view!

Some may think its a compliment or some may think so what? But when I think back about that incident, I don't think its a compliment, rather seeing a lady's feet and trying to see if the face or the lady on the whole is worth looking at is disgusting. As if people are on a display! Compliments are when people say it on your face. Not when they want to have a look at whoever is sitting in another rick is worth a look or no! And if the girl in the other rickshaw would have been pretty, these folks have a good look and move on. Shesssh... that's so eeyyuu!! How sick can people get?
Consider some really nice and pretty girl(not the devil plain jane me), its so odd and irritating that people will 'look' at you as they go by!

Personally, I would not take it as a compliment. What right do strangers have to look at me? What sense it makes in feeling happy or taking this sort of awkwardly thought of compliment? In fact why should anyone see some pretty face toe-to-head(in this case) or even judge the woman after seeing her feet let's see how she looks on the whole?!! I wonder if the veil tradition was meant for a real life situation, not only for orthodox texts. I wonder if the hijab that the Muslims wear is a plain cover from the prying male eyes, instead of the much debated hot topic of freedom and women's liberation and all those feminist ideologies.

"O Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (jalabib) close round them (when they go abroad)..." (33:59)

Ibn Rushd in Bidaya al-Mujtahid (1:83) said that this verse has been adduced as proof that no part of a woman's body should be evident to those who are not among the prohibited degrees of relationship (mahram) or her husband. Al-Qurtubi in his commentary on the verse said that the jilbab is the cloak that conceals all of the body including the head.

Traditionally, in Christianity, women were enjoined to cover their heads in church, just as it was (and still is) customary for men to remove their hat as a sign of respect.
In many traditional Eastern Orthodox Churches, and in some very conservative Protestant churches as well, the custom continues of women covering their heads in church (or even when praying privately at home).

Its not a sign of oppression, as some may claim, one should of course have the option and the freewill to not use the veil in religions where it's an integral part of their religion. In most of the Indian traditions we find the women cover their head or cover their face, gross orthodoxy I would say or think, but let me think again... Were some traditions made keeping in mind the never changing human behaviour? But who the hell will want to follow it all the time?
Given the freewill option, a head scarf would keep one's privacy, one's looks and above all a lady away from the unwarranted, unwanted and uninvited stranger's eyes!

N people, no silly comments on this, just imagine you as a girl/lady or in case you are a guy wondering what's wrong with this tomboy imagine your sister being 'checked out' or judged as 'not worth a watch' after having a look by some arbitrary passerby.
Let me take a guess! That's why the princesses were kept away from the public eye, carried in high palanquins whenever they went out casually! Bingo!!
;) Do you think you are one or your sister is like one?!

Don’t Turn Love Into A Relationship

An article from a newsletter... not my original creation...
but it makes sense..

Love comes like a strong breeze and carries away two lovers to unknown dimensions. Lovers go through an experience peak and then need to settle down. In the process, they start feeling bored, craving the same peak yet again and again. When they don’t reach it, they feel frustrated and fall into the ditch of misery.
Peaks in love are experienced when lovers open their wings to fly high into the sky together. There’s a whole sky of freedom and togetherness that they feel in each other’s company. But the moment they start clinging to each other and suppress freedom, love falls into an abysmal valley of misery. Then they wonder what happened to their love! The clinging starts clipping their wings, killing their love.
True love is unconditional, and based on an individual’s freedom. Two persons can be very loving together. The more loving they are, the lower the possibility of any relationship. The more loving they are, the greater the freedom between them. The more loving they are, the thinner the prospect of any demand, domination, expectation. Naturally then, there is no question of frustration.
Remember this: Don’t have any expectations. Love because love is your own inner growth. When you love, you call your spring of growth closer. Your love will help you grow towards more light, more truth, more freedom. Love but don’t ever create a relationship!
A relationship is a part of the business world. A slight change in the situation, and it evaporates. It has no solidity. If love comes spontaneously, suddenly, like a fountain, asking for nothing in return, then it is one of the greatest treasures. Love is a fire. The purer it is, the better it burns all riddles, all problems. But love as a relationship creates problems, riddled with all sorts of undesirable things.
Remember this: Love is capable of destroying everything else, just don’t let it become a relationship. If you do, love will disappear and in its place will come politics and manipulation. Then, your problems will only increase.

XYZ says: “I am against all kinds of relationships. For example, I don’t like the word ‘friendship’ but I love the word ‘friendliness’. Friendliness is a quality within you; friendship becomes a burdensome relationship.”
XYZ elaborates: “Friendship is a relationship. You can be in that relationship with a few people. Friendliness is a quality, not a relationship. It has nothing to do with anybody else. It is basically your inner quality. You can be friendly with many, many people. You can be friendly even when you are alone. You cannot be in friendship when you are alone—the other is needed—but friendliness is a kind of fragrance. A flower blooms; nobody passes by, yet it is fragrant. It matters not whether anyone comes to know of it; being fragrant is its quality.”

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If...

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man!
- Rudyard Kipling

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP DAY to ALL!! :)

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Life's Good! ;)

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Rain, Rain .. Come Again..

A lightening here, a thunder there,
Giving little babies a scare.
Clouds gather in a sheep-like huddle,
While the dear ones cuddle.

Dancing down from their heavenly abode,
Running through the foliage,
Hurrying rain-man set up the gauge.
Quenching the parched earth,
Making all children shout in mirth.

A drizzle here, a downpour there,
Rain-gods are present everywhere.
Drizzling and dripping all day,
Just then comes out a little sun-ray,
Leaves flaunt their slivery shine,
Droplets look like diamonds on the vine.
A glimpse of the rainbow makes my day,
In minutes it vanishes away!

They tickle your face with surprises,
And tingle as if you'd been kissed.
Joys of rain come in all sizes,
Cycling,football & long walks on my list.
My new dress is in vain,
But I just love the rain.. ;)