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Microsoft Error Messages

via my mentor Judy Cote

In Japan, machines have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese Haiku poetry:

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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
 
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Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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The Web site you seek
Can not be located but
Countless more exist.
 
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Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
 
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Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

 
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Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.
 
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Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that.
 
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Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
 
  okbutton.gif (996 bytes)  

 

Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
 
  okbutton.gif (996 bytes)  

 

Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
 
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Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down.
 
  okbutton.gif (996 bytes)  

 

Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
 
  okbutton.gif (996 bytes)  

 

Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
 
  okbutton.gif (996 bytes)  

 

Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
 
  okbutton.gif (996 bytes)  

 

Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
 
  okbutton.gif (996 bytes)  

 

Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
 
  okbutton.gif (996 bytes)  

 

Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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Problem has occurred
exactly what I won't say
press OK to close.

- Matthew Temple

 
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Error   closebox.gif (897 bytes)
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
 
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