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Hi from Joy and David in Japan!
Thought you'd like this. Something a little different.
Subject: error message haikus
In Japan, they have replaced the
impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages 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.
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The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist. |
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return. |
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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. |
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Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that. |
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone. |
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Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down. |
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A
crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone. |
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred. |
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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. |
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Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped. |
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank. |
Isn't that better than "your
computer has performed an illegal operation"?
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