Haiku for Windows

**Dadpole** · 16th March 2007, 23:33

Error messages in Haiku.

Haiku is Japanese poetry consisting of 17 syllables: 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third.
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.
Here are 16 error messages from Japan. Aren't these better than, "Your computer has performed an illegal operation"?
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Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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The Web site you seek
cannot be located, but
countless more exist.
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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.
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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.
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
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With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence.
"My Novel" not found.
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The Tao that is seen
is not the true Tao - until
You bring fresh toner.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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