From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 10:20:14 EST
Those are fun -- if you like them I have a link to a site full on
www.macchiato.com (I also put up "Hu's on First", if you haven't seen it).
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 06:25
Subject: [OT] HAIKU computer talk
> Knowing that many on this list would enjoy this, I couldn't resist being
> blatently off topic.
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> Peter
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> >"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.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >Now isn't that better than: "Your computer has performed an illegal
> operation."
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