Supposedly in Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful MICROSOFT error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each only 17 syllables, 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, five in the third...
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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.
With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao--until
You bring fresh toner.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
The Web site you seek
Cannot be located but
Countless more exist.
Three things are certain
Death, taxes and lost data
Guess which has occurred.

Anonymous


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