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>X-Originating-IP: [130.102.5.61] >From: "David Whatson" <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Error Messages (Japanese Style) >Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 09:46:16 +1000 >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 May 2001 23:46:17.0095 (UTC) >FILETIME=[69596970:01C0D4F4] >X-Status: >X-Keywords: > >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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > 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 >_________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. >