Here are 14 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan, where 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.
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