Alternative Error messages for the Soul

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful computer error messages with Haiku poetry messages. As you know, a Haiku has five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message. Here are some Haiku error messages from Japan:

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The Web site you seek
Cannot be located.
Countless more exist.

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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.

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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

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Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Software is like that.

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Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

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Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

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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?

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You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

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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.

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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen, mind, both are blank.

Contributor: Wendi Seidl, Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:14:00 -0800