Here are 14 error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan-some
are written in Haiku. Aren't these better than "your computer has performed
an illegal operation"?


>1. The Web site you seek cannot be located, but countless more exist.

>2. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

>3. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too
>much.

>4. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your
>screams.

>5. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.

>6. Your file was so big. It might be very useful. But now it is gone.

>7. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is
>down.

>8. A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.

>9. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has
>occurred?

>10. You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not
>here.

>11. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, but we never will.

>12. Having been erased, the document you're seeking must now be retyped.

>13. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared.

>14. Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
>

Hahaha. Speaking of error messages....

HTTP Error 404
Website Malfunction

The URL path in your request doesn't match anything we have available.
NOTE: Occasionally someone yanks on one of our files and leaves a broken link exposed.
We apologize for any problems caused by our ignominious display of broken links.

Um, those Brits...

Good ones!

Eh, that last one sky, is that part of the Bush plan for Americans?