Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Computer Error Messages - in Haiku

My friend Jim sent this -
Via e-mail: haiku-based
error messages.

I'll keep these in mind.
Perfect reason to get drunk
Off some good sake.

* * * * *

Your file was so big.

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.

---

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.

---

First snow, then silence.

This thousand-dollar screen dies

So beautifully.

---

With searching comes loss

And the presence of absence.

"Your file" [is] not found.

---

The Tao that is seen

Is not the true Tao - until

You bring fresh toner.

---

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.


2 comments:

Broadsheet said...

So very funny
Your Haiku make me laugh very much
I've had too much wine

John said...

Very important
Not to drink-and-write; yours has
nineteen syllables!