[Sca-cooks] OT, OOP...Much Kinder Error Messages

[Elaine Koogler]

I know this is 'way off topic and out of period, but I just had to share
it with you folks!

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.

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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.

Kiri