The Lighter Side: Japanese Error Messages

Here are 14 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan.  Aren't these better than "Your computer has performed an illegal operation?"

    * 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 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.

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

    * 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're seeking must now be retyped.

    * Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared.

    * Screen. Mind. Both are blank.