In Japan, it has been suggested that they replace 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 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.
Now aren't these better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation?"
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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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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 are seeking
Must now be retyped.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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I ate your Web page.
Forgive me; it was tasty
And tart on my tongue
Good work missy!
ReplyDeleteHere's my feeble effort:
Have you lost something?
I decided to eat it
Please enjoy your day
Hi there! Thanks for posting your haiku on my webpage! Unfortunately, even though I've got 17 referrals for a free iPod, so far I've only have one referral in which someone has signed up for a service. I don't know what th e big deal is... After all, you can cancel anything you sign up for any time you want, right?
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your haiku!
Err Flash, that wasn't my work so can't take the credit! Your effort however is great! :)
ReplyDeleteDale, got my fingers crossed for you (and me!). I have a bet with the boyfriend that I will get a free ipod by the end of the year ... it's not the money, I just want to wipe away his "I told you so!" smirk! But yeah, people can cancel anytime!
Hehehehe!
ReplyDeleteThose are quality!
Very creative. I teach a unit on Haiku to my year eight students. They love it.
ReplyDeleteHaiku is rubbish
ReplyDeleteJapanese nonsense with words
doesn't even rhyme
heh heh heh
Blue screen of death.
ReplyDeleteFunny...
For Lord B:
ReplyDeleteBargain loves the Reds.
Says United Forever.
But Glazer spoilt it.
Control Alt Delete?
ReplyDeleteWhen it all goes tits up
It will never work.
Hmm... don't know if that actually sits within the rules.
Only seventeen
ReplyDeletesyllables is not enough
for me to say ev...
Bugger.
Try a hand I will
ReplyDeleteAt haiku making today
It did not work out
haha :)