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ERROR messages in JAPAN
In Japan,
they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages
with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku has strict construction rules
- each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7
in the second, and 5 in the third. They are used to communicate timeless
messages, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through
extreme brevity. Following are samples.
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>----------1
> >The Web site you seek
> >Cannot be located, but
> >Countless more exist.
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>----------2
> >Program aborting:
> >Close all that you have worked on.
> >You ask far too much.
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>----------3
> >Yesterday it worked.
> >Today it is not working.
> >Windows is like that.
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>----------4
> >Stay with patient course.
> >Of little worth is your ire.
> >The network is down.
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>----------5
> >Three things are certain:
> >Death, taxes and lost data.
> >Guess which has occurred.
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>----------6
> >Out of memory.
> >We wish to hold the whole sky,
> >But we never will.
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>----------7
> >Serious error.
> >All shortcuts have disappeared.
> >Screen. Mind. All is blank.
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>----------8
> >Chaos reigns within.
> >Reflect, repent, and reboot.
> >Order shall return.
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>----------9
> >Windows NT crashed.
> >I am the Blue Screen of Death.
> >No one hears your screams.
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>----------10
> >Your file was so big.
> >It might be very useful.
> >But now it is gone.
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>----------11
> >A crash reduces
> >Your expensive computer
> >To a simple stone.
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>----------12
> >You step in the stream,
> >But the water has moved on.
> >This page is not here.
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>----------13
> >Having been erased,
> >The document you are seeking
> >Must now be retyped.
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