In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error
messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku has strict construction rules -
each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the
second, 5 in the third. Here are 16 actual error messages from Japan...the
essence of Zen:

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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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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First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again
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The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
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Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
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Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom
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