Friday, October 30, 2009

Japanese error messages -- in haiku

I got this from a friend, Colleen Chun.

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 17 Syllables - 5 syllables in

the first line, 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.

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The Web site you seek

Cannot be located, but

Countless more exist.

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Chaos reigns within.

Reflect, repent, and reboot.

Order shall return.

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Program aborting

Close all that you have worked on.

You ask far too much.

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Windows NT crashed.

I am the Blue Screen of Death.

No one hears your screams.

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Yesterday it worked.

Today it is not working.

Windows is like that.

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Your file was so big.

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.

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Stay the patient course.

Of little worth is your ire.

The network is down.

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A crash reduces

Your expensive computer

To a simple stone.

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Three things are certain

Death, taxes and lost data.

Guess which has occurred.

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You step in the stream,

But the water has moved on.

This page is not here.

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Out of memory.

We wish to hold the whole sky,

But we never will.

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Having been erased,

The document you're seeking

Must now be retyped.

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Serious error.

All shortcuts have disappeared.

Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

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I ate your Web page.

Forgive me; it was tasty

And tart on my tongue

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