Nocturnal Poïesis

In Japan, they have apparently replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry.

With their strict construction rules (each poem has only 17 syllables: 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third), Haikus are used to communicate timeless messages, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.

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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're seeking Must now be retyped.

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  Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank.