In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
error messages with Haiku poetry messages. They are used to communicate
a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful
insight through extreme brevity.
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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.
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.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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.
Isn't that better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation" ?
![[info]](http://klab.lv/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}