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From: Bruce Guthrie <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Haiku Error Messages (2)

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

Aborted effort.
Close all that you have.
You ask far too much.

A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.

Having been erased,
The document you are seeking
Must now be retyped.

The website you seek
cannot be located now.
Endless more exist.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.

With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.

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

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

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: "File not found."

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared,
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy.

A file that 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.

When computer rests
screen savers make use of time.
Cyber hypnotized.

This site has been moved.
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
have to delete you.

Wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
Segmentation Fault.

ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.

Marketshare lament.
Windows, do you feel my pain?
Thank God for my Mac!

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

You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Hal, open the file.
Hal, open the file, Hal!
open the... please, Hal!

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