JAPANESE PC ERROR MESSAGES

 In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful

 Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese Haiku

 poetry, each only 17 syllables, five syllables in the first

 line, seven in the second, five in the third ...

 A file that big?

 It might be very useful.

 But now it is gone.

 

 The Web site you seek

 Can not be located but

 Countless more exist.

 

 Chaos reigns within.

 Reflect, repent, and reboot.

 Order shall return.

 

 Aborted effort:

 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.

 

 First snow, then silence.

 This thousand dollar screen dies

 So beautifully.

 

 With searching comes loss

 And the presence of absence:

 ?My Novel? not found.

 

 The Tao that is seen

 Is not the true Tao until

 You bring fresh toner.

 

 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.