Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Microsoft Error Messages

I received this via e-mail a while ago, written by a chap called Jeremy Impey - I don’t have any further details about him:

MICROSOFT HAIKUS

Does anyone out there have problems with the usual Microsoft error messages?
In Japan, they have replaced these impersonal and unhelpful error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules - each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 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…

The Web site you seekCannot be located, butCountless more exist.

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

Your file was so big.It might have been useful.But now it is gone.

A crash reducesYour expensive computerTo a simple stone.

Chaos reigns within.Reflect, repent, and reboot.Order shall return.

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

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

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