"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. (*BULLSHIT*)
> > > > > > > > > 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. > > > Isn't that better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation?"
I would link this if I a) knew how b) wasn't a lazy shit
Date: 2002-11-22 09:06 am (UTC)True revenge follows -
"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. (*BULLSHIT*)
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
Isn't that better than "your computer has performed an illegal
operation?"
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