From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 09:25:49 EST
Knowing that many on this list would enjoy this, I couldn't resist being
blatently off topic.
Peter
>"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.
>
>--------------------------------------------
>
>The Web site you seek
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>Cannot be located, but
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>Countless more exist.
>
>
>
>--------------------------------------------
>
>Chaos reigns within.
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>Reflect, repent, and reboot.
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>Order shall return.
>
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>Program aborting:
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>Close all that you have worked on.
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>You ask far too much.
>
>------------------------------------------------
>
>Windows NT crashed.
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>I am the Blue Screen of Death.
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>No one hears your screams.
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>
>Yesterday it worked.
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>Today it is not working.
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>Windows is like that.
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>
>Your file was so big.
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>It might be very useful.
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>But now it is gone.
>
>-------------------------------------------
>
>Stay the patient course.
>
>Of little worth is your ire.
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>The network is down.
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>---------------------------------------------------
>
>A crash reduces
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>Your expensive computer
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>To a simple stone.
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>
>Three things are certain:
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>Death, taxes and lost data.
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>Guess which has occurred.
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>
>You step in the stream,
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>But the water has moved on.
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>This page is not here.
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>
>Out of memory.
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>We wish to hold the whole sky,
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>But we never will.
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>------------------------------------------------
>
>Having been erased,
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>The document you're seeking
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>Must now be retyped.
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>---------------------------------------------------
>
>Serious error.
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>All shortcuts have disappeared.
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>Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
>
>
>
>
>
>Now isn't that better than: "Your computer has performed an illegal
operation."
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