If Computers Wrote Error Message In Haiku
 
 Seeing my great fault
 Through darkening blue windows
 I begin again
 
 -- Chris Walsh
 
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 The code was willing,
 It considered your request,
 But the chips were weak.
 
 -- Barry L. Brumitt
 
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 Printer not ready.
 Could be a fatal error.
 Have a pen handy?
 
 -- Pat Davis
 
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 A file that big?
 It might be very useful.
 But now it is gone.
 
 -- David J. Liszewski
 
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 Errors have occurred.
 We won't tell you where or why.
 Lazy programmers.
 
 -- Charlie Gibbs
 
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 Server's poor response
 Not quick enough for browser.
 Timed out, plum blossom.
 
 -- Rik Jespersen
 
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 Chaos reigns within.
 Reflect, repent, and reboot.
 Order shall return.
 
 -- Suzie Wagner
 
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 Login incorrect.
 Only perfect spellers may
 enter this system.
 
 -- Jason Axley
 
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 This site has been moved.
 We'd tell you where, but then we'd
 have to delete you.
 
 -- Charles Matthews
 
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 wind catches lily
 scatt'ring petals to the wind:
 segmentation fault
 
 -- Nick Sweeney
 
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 ABORTED effort:
 Close all that you have.
 You ask way too much.
 
 -- Mike Hagler
 
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 First snow, then silence.
 This thousand dollar screen dies
 so beautifully.
 
 -- Simon Firth
 
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 With searching comes loss
 and the presence of absence:
 "My Novel" not found.
 
 -- Howard Korder
 
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 The Tao that is seen
 Is not the true Tao, until
 You bring fresh toner.
 
 -- Bill Torcaso
 
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 The Web site you seek
 cannot be located but
 endless others exist
 
 -- Joy Rothke
 
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 Stay the patient course
 Of little worth is your ire
 The network is down
 
 -- David Ansel
 
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 A crash reduces
 your expensive computer
 to a simple stone.
 
 -- James Lopez
 
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 There is a chasm
 of carbon and silicon
 the software can't bridge
 
 -- Rahul Sonnad
 
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 Yesterday it worked
 Today it is not working
 Windows is like that
 
 -- Margaret Segall
 
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 To have no errors
 Would be life without meaning
 No struggle, no joy
 
 -- Brian M. Porter
 
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 You step in the stream,
 but the water has moved on.
 This page is not here.
 
 -- Cass Whittington
 
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 No keyboard present
 Hit F1 to continue
 Zen engineering?
 
 -- Jim Griffith
 
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 Hal, open the file
 Hal, open the damn file, Hal
 open the, please Hal
 
 -- Jennifer Jo Lane
 
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 Out of memory.
 We wish to hold the whole sky,
 But we never will.
 
 -- Francis Heaney
 
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 Having been erased,
 The document you're seeking
 Must now be retyped.
 
 -- Judy Birmingham
 
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 The ten thousand things
 How long do any persist?
 Netscape, too, has gone.
 
 -- Jason Willoughby
 
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 Rather than a beep
 Or a rude error message,
 These words: "File not found."
 
 -- Len Dvorkin
 
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 Serious error.
 All shortcuts have disappeared.
 Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
 
 -- Ian Hughes
 
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 Three things are certain:
 Death, taxes, and lost data.
 Guess which has occurred.
 
 -- David Dixon
 
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 Windows NT crashed.
 I am the Blue Screen of Death.
 No one hears your screams.
 
 -- Peter Rothman