Computer error messages written in Haiku

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Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

          - David Dixon

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Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?

          - David Carlson

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I'm sorry, there's -- um --
insufficient -- what's-it-called?
The term eludes me ...

          - Owen Mathews

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Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

          - Peter Rothman

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Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again

          - Chris Walsh

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Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?

          - Pat Davis

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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.

          - John 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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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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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 code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.

          - Barry L. Brumitt

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Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that

          - Margaret Segall

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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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          From loss, emptiness,
          Only in seeking nothingness,
          May one attain nirvana.

                    - Ben Ezzell

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No keyboard present
Hit FI to continue
Zen engineering?

          - Jim Griffith

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          Hal, open the file
          Hal, open the damn file, Hal
          open file, please Hal

                    - Jennifer Jo Lane

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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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