In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with poetry. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem has only three lines, 17 syllables: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third. Haikus are used to communicate a timeless message often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity -- the essence of Zen. Some examples: Your file was so big. It must have been dear to you. 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. The thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully. With searching comes loss And the presence of absence: "My Report" 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 seek Must now be retyped. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. har har har
Heh, I found a bunch of those and flooded #bit-tech with them one night, I think I had one of the resident idlers in tears /me goes to dig through logfile...
I imagine so, you'd just need to find out where windows stores it's error messages and replace those bits with your own... I've seen people turn the blue screen of death into the red screen of wrath and that sort of thing, so it can't be too hard, can it? Wouldn't it be funny if you were to quote one of these to a tech support monkey while explaining a bluescreen, they'd think you were pulling their leg
Oh forgot to mention I am not the author - I was cleaning out my stuff folder and found those in a text file
half of us would have heard it before, and the other half would be franticly looking for what the hell it means.
Expect to see them as a new option in the Microsoft Plus Extremely Usesless Addons Pack for XP Good tho.
You can replace the normal windows error messages with these, but I believe you can only have one liners, not like the 3 liners here, so it'd kinda ruin it.
