In Japan, they've replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem has only 3 lines and a total of 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.

> You step in the stream,
> But the water has moved on.
> This page is not here.
> ---------------------------------
> Your file was big.
> It might be very useful.
> But now it is gone.
> -------------------------------
> The Web site 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 has 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.
> ----------------------------
> 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.