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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 inthe
first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used tocommunicate a
timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful
insight through extreme brevity. Here are 16 actual error messages from
Japan.

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The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
--------------------------------------------
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.
------------------------------------------------
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?"

Date: 2003-03-07 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arman-.livejournal.com
Ничё непонимэ - но, ка филолоху, понравилось "из страны оригинала"..;))

Date: 2003-03-07 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] albars.livejournal.com
На самом деле это из журнала Salon (.com) периода расцвета хайтека...

Re:

Date: 2003-03-08 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] signamax.livejournal.com
мне пришло, как из японии...
я не гуглю.
do you google?

Date: 2003-03-08 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] albars.livejournal.com
Я просто помню их с тех пор; они произвели на меня такое впечатление, что я после этого стал почитывать Салон, в особенности 21 challenge; там было что-то ещё забавное, но не много.

:)))

Date: 2003-03-08 06:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] signamax.livejournal.com
спасибо за ссылку - схожу

Date: 2003-03-08 09:43 am (UTC)

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