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>From: "David Whatson" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Error Messages (Japanese Style)
>Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 09:46:16 +1000
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>In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful
> Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each
> with only 17 syllables: five in the first line, seven in the second,
> five in the third.
>
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>
> Your file was so big.
> It might be very useful.
> But now it is gone.
>
> The website you seek
> Cannot 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.
>
> 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
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