NotesFromStHelena

A contact just sent me "16 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan", observing "Aren't these better than 'your computer has performed an illegal operation?' ".

I agree. I would even go as far as to suggest that the text I have highlighted could become the motto of St. Helena:

• 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.