Japanese Computer Philosophy

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.
 
		Below, the essence of ZEN:


                               
               Your file was so big.
 
              It might be very useful.
 
                But now it is gone.
 
 
 
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              The Web site you seek
 
              Cannot be located, but
 
              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.
 
               Windows is like that.
 
 
 
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             First snow, then silence.
 
          This thousand-dollar screen dies
 
                  So beautifully.
 
 
 
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            With searching comes loss
 
           And the presence of absence:
 
              "My Novel" not found.
 
 
 
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               The Tao that is seen
 
            Is not the true Tao- until
 
               You bring fresh toner.
 
 
 
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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.
 
 
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 	Isn't that better than "your computer has 
        performed an illegal operation?"  :]