Those Smart Japanese...

There are rumors that in Japan, they are considering replacing the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. (I highly doubt it but it's still hilarious.) Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem has only three lines and seventeen syllables: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second and five in the third. Haiku is used to communicate a timeless message often achieving a powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are a couple we found off the 'net that are particularly amusing.

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

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.

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.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.

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.

And now here is a particular haiku that I personally find extremely touching.

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.