[Fwd: FW: Haiku error messages]

[Lee Einer]

Domo Origato, Mr. Roboto--


>>
>>For any of us toying with intersections between the humanities and  
>>technology.
>>
>>In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
>>error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They're 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:
>>--------------------------------------------
>>
>>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.
>>
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