Wednesday, March 21, 2007

This year an e-mail on the Web, list 14 ways that computer programmers in Japan have rephrased the following computer message: "Your computer preformed an illegal operation." Apparently some of these messages were even written in Haiku. Which one is your favorite?

  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 to 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 bog. It might be useful. But it is now 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 one has occurred?
  10. You step into 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.
My teacher showed these to me today in writing class. I found numbers 9 and 2 hilarious.

2 comments:

Beccah said...

I like number four the best.

Freefall16 said...

I like them all XD. where did you find these?