Foo - Serene Japanese Computer Messages

> SERENE JAPANESE COMPUTER MESSAGES
>
> Here are 16 actual error messages seen on the computer
> screens in
> Japan; some are written in Haiku. Aren't these
> better than "your
> Computer has performed an illegal operation"?
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Credit: Gloria Cheung
>
>
>
> ------ End of Forwarded Message

Sorry, not actual error messages. Funny, though. Few of my favourites:

The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
-- Barry L. Brumitt

Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
-- Pat Davis

Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
-- Charlie Gibbs

http://www.infiltec.com/j-chaiku.htm has all mentioned above and then some (with what I believe are the correct credits).

--J

Thanks Juha, a friend sent the page and I should have chopped the top-
your link is much better-
Your avatar is kinda scary in a Maurice Sendak kinda way-J

Yes, it's my friend's cat Pomo ("boss" in English) at 2 years of age, waking up from his afternoon nap, getting ready for a dinner and a wild night out. Scary indeed! :D

But I know what you mean, people usually don't see the cat in it until I explain. The picture is too tightly cropped.

--J