In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each with only 17 syllables: five in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third. ------------------------ Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone. ------------------------ The website you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. ------------------------ Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent and reboot. Order shall return. ------------------------ Aborted effort. 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. ------------------------ 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. ------------------------ I ate your Web page. Forgive me; it was tasty And tart on my tongue