Japanese Haikus for Windows Error Messages.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:27 pm
In Japan they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error
messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry:
> | A file that big?
> | It might be very useful.
> | But now it is gone.
> |
> | ------------------------
> |
> | The Web site you seek
> | Can not be located but
> | Countless more exist.
> | ------------------------
> |
> | Chaos reigns within.
> | Reflect, repent, and reboot.
> | Order shall return.
> |
> | ------------------------
> |
> | ABORTED effort:
> | 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.
> |
> | ------------------------
> |
> | First snow, then silence.
> | This thousand dollar screen dies
> | So beautifully.
> |
> | ------------------------
> |
> | With searching comes loss
> | And the presence of absence:
> | "My Novel" 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
messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry:
> | A file that big?
> | It might be very useful.
> | But now it is gone.
> |
> | ------------------------
> |
> | The Web site you seek
> | Can not be located but
> | Countless more exist.
> | ------------------------
> |
> | Chaos reigns within.
> | Reflect, repent, and reboot.
> | Order shall return.
> |
> | ------------------------
> |
> | ABORTED effort:
> | 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.
> |
> | ------------------------
> |
> | First snow, then silence.
> | This thousand dollar screen dies
> | So beautifully.
> |
> | ------------------------
> |
> | With searching comes loss
> | And the presence of absence:
> | "My Novel" 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
