Guest guest Report post Posted January 30, 2004 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 some actual error messages from Japan. Aren't these better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation?" --------- 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. ----------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
