http://haiku4beer.tribe.net/thread/002ea9ae-a300-4cdf-86b6-286928a3c4d1?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://haiku4beer.tribe.net/thread/002ea9ae-a300-4cdf-86b6-286928a3c4d1#c8f14b16-4a5f-4982-adfb-8f247151140a 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, 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. Here are 16 actual 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. Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:20:18 GMT http://haiku4beer.tribe.net/thread/002ea9ae-a300-4cdf-86b6-286928a3c4d1#c8f14b16-4a5f-4982-adfb-8f247151140a Annie 2003-10-02T22:20:18Z