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In Japan they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error
messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry:


> | A file that big?

> | It might be very useful.

> | But now it is gone.

> |

> | ------------------------

> |

> | The Web site you seek

> | Can not 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.

> |

> | ------------------------

> |

> | First snow, then silence.

> | This thousand dollar screen dies

> | So beautifully.

> |

> | ------------------------

> |

> | With searching comes loss

> | And the presence of absence:

> | "My Novel" not found.

> |

> | ------------------------

> |

> | The Tao that is seen

> | Is not the true Tao-until

> | You bring fresh toner.

> |

> | ------------------------

> |

> | 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

Hello Windows User
We have lost all your data
Buy Vista today!

lol is this real? it would be a better world if it is...reading some hiaku's might calm me down before i realize all the security flaws and horrible programing in Vista

That's funny, but Japanese haiku poetry is written in Japanese and doesn't translate with the same number of syllables; also I've heard that traditional haikus are a bit more complicated than the simple "5 - 7 - 5" versions they teach kids in grade school.

that pwns. LOL

Win.

Maybe I was the only one who found absolutely 0 humour in this stupid shit?

That was pretty humouring...but not at an "LoL" level.

I consider the "lol" level pretty low so to me if it isn't at the "lol" level then it shouldn't even deserve a level. Even though I must say that was the best one out of all of them.

The "lol" level to most people just means that they think that whatever they're looking at is humoring. But to me, it actually means what it was meant to mean "Laugh Out Loud"

"lol" has become a much more general term that actually laughing out loud. I say it all the time when I really don't laugh just when something is humorous or even if it makes me kinda chuckle/smile type of a thing. But everyones different.

> | A crash reduces

> | Your expensive computer

> | To a simple stone.

i thought it was funny

funny but unrelated haiku that i saw on a friend's shirt:

Haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

All doesn't sound funny to me

LMAO

it wasn't haha funny...it wasn't hehe funny...it wasn't even heh funny...It wasn't funny, the only reason I read it was because it was truthful =P

Well some of them gave me a small giggle