I’ve heard of hacking competitions, but this is the first haiku competition I’ve posted about!
If you’re a geek with a poetic streak, Intel and Microsoft are awarding prizes to people who submit a haiku which expresses how a home server would (or does) make their digital lives easier to manage by storing, streaming and sharing photos, videos, music and documents across multiple digital devices in the home (TV, iPhone, PC, etc.) Prizes include home servers from Asus and HP, Zunes and Western Digital hard drives.
What’s a haiku?
Haiku (俳句, haikai verse?)
listen (help·info), plural haiku, is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 moras (or on), in three metrical phrases of 5, 7, and 5 moras respectively.[1] Haiku typically contain a kigo, or seasonal reference, and a kireji or verbal caesura. In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line, while haiku in English usually appear in three lines, to parallel the three metrical phrases of Japanese haiku.[2] Previously called hokku, haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.
Source: Wikipedia
So, that’s a three line poem, that doesn’t even have to rhyme! The first line must have 5 syllables, the second line 7, and the third line 5. Find you creative muse, write your haiku and submit at winahomeserver.com
Update: Thanks to Bodog for pointing out that the competition is restricted to the USA.
21. November 2009 at 10:49 pm
Windows Home Server
It's the best thing since sliced bread
Next, Power Pack 3!
22. November 2009 at 6:00 am
Before anyone fromother than the good old USA get's excited…and bothers to enter…
There's a couple of key conditions that makes this contest less than exciting:
"Contest is open to legal residents of the United States, twenty-one (21) years of age or older as of entry date"
So once again the US based players such as Microsoft & Intel show how global they really are!