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enigmaha
07-01-2008, 01:11 AM
Japan's Joyful Error Messages


In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They're 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. Enjoy...


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 NT 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.


Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But, now it is gone.


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

sd gross
07-05-2008, 04:01 PM
In response to Enigmaha's enchanting Haikus

I Love IT!
Why not use this delightful, and (mostly) artful form of verbal expression to touch on the mundane, thus garnishing it with a modicum of elegance & classicism?
With absolutely no intention to offend anyone.
Herewith a pair of irreverent tankas:

endless tankas post
upon these wacco pages
insidious notes
leaving us hungering for
new tastes of verbal sushi


Thirteen hundred years
poets of integrity
striving to compose
artful Nipponese wisdom
thirty-one syllables long

Japan's Joyful Error Messages


In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They're 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. Enjoy...


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 NT 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.


Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But, now it is gone.


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