Haiku HTTP Response 403

my addition to the Haiku error messages...

HTTP Response: 403
fences erected here.
you may not enter this place.
403, denied.

Error Message Haikus

I received the following email, which made me smile:

Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem has only 3 lines and a total of 17 syllables:

• five syllables in the first line,

• seven in the second, 

• five in the third.

Haikus are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity - the essence of Zen . . .


Your file was 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 has 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 Noel" 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.

Silverlight Coding Competition

I've entered my tag cloud into this competition on the of chance that I might win ;-)

http://www.componentart.com/community/competition2009/details.aspx?id=1016

so give us a vote please! (note the tags for this post)

Requirements: Non-directive interviews

Reading the Economist's article "The avatar will see you now" I came across:

"Meanwhile, a real person alongside the participant will answer any questions and, after the virtual visit is over, Dr Conboy-Hill will carry out “non-directive” interviews, a technique used by the police to encourage witnesses to choose what they want to talk about and to maximise recall"

What interested me was the snippet about "non-directive" interviews - it sounded like a technique that might be worthwhile for requirements gathering - I subsequently found "ACTIVE LISTENING IN THE NONDIRECTIVE INTERVIEW" which I think there are a few tricks worth picking up - especially rephrasing and the "brake shoes"...

of course I'm a sucker for any document that uses the word "interlocutor" ;-)