Knowing that many on this list would enjoy this, I couldn't resist being blatently off topic.
Peter >"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. > > > > > >Now isn't that better than: "Your computer has performed an illegal operation."
