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In Japan they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages such as "your computer has performed an illegal operation" with haiku poetry messages.

This poetry has strict construction rules - each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second and 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 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.
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hehehehe

they are beatuiful messages.....

It would be nice to have them installed on all windoze boxes, but with the ever helpful error number in the title bar of the error message dialog box
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:lol2:

I'm sure I've seen those years ago, but they're still funny Very Happy
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er... Laughing

Smile
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those are classic.
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hehehe nice dude wouldnt mind those messages instead, good for a little giggle make ya feel better about the fact ur computer is having a fit Razz