Error Messages From Japan:

Here are 16 actual error messages seen on the computer screens in Japan, where they are written in Haiku. 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.

OK, not so wordless

I know I posted today as "Wordless Wednesday", but I posted that before my ordeal of renewing our Norton Internet Security subscription.

The initial "renewing" was quick and simple...*click Norton Internet Security*; *click the "renew subscription" button*; *buy new subscription*. See... quick, easy, done.

With the subscription, comes the "you can use this program on up to 3 PCs". Great! I don't have to pay for a second!

Now comes the ordeal. I tried following the directions! Didn't work. I went to their website and followed the "troubleshooting" instructions! Didn't work. I uninstalled & reinstalled. I tried to call the tech support. Well, after a maze of forms to fill out before getting their 800 #, I called to find out that the phone call would cost $9.50! Grrrr, back to their website!

Finally, I find a "live chat" with technical support. You had to download it, but at least it was free! I download the "chat" program, fill out the info, including the "description of your problem" box. After chatting a few minutes, the analyst asked if she could have access to our computer. I said what, no way sure!

My daughter & I sat there in awe, amazement SHOCK as we watched the cursor on the computer move by itself! Closing & opening both windows & programs! It was an eerie feeling watching someone, who was on the west coast, work on our computer. Finally she reboots our computer, clicks all the "right buttons" and *poof* we have the Internet Securities subscription updated and everything functioning as it should.

This whole ordeal, start to finish, took over 5 hours!! Five hours!!

So, that's why my "Wordless Wednesday" became a release post for my 5 hours of frustration!