[Ravensfort] OT: Computer error messages

S C Cartwright ccartwright at lycos.com
Thu Dec 12 11:31:58 PST 2002


Here's one for all our techie types.
LOL - too bad these don't really show up on our computer screens.


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DATE: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:07:44

I thought you all might enjoy knowing how Japan handles those Computer
ERROR messages.  "In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and
unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku
poetry has strict construction rules - each poem has only 3 lines and a total of 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.

Here are 13 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.

(Isn't that better than "your computer has performed
an illegal operation?")


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