In 1998,Salon Magazine ran a competition challenging readers to submit error messages
written as Haiku poems.
Haiku has strict construction rules. Each poem has only 17 syllables: 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third.
They are used to communicate timeless messages, often achieving a wistful,yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. These are some of the results.
The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist. - Joy Rothke
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return. - Suzie Wagner
Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much. - Unknown
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams. - Peter Rothman
Your file was so big.
It must have been quite useful.
But now it is gone. - David J. Liszewski
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down. - David Ansel
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone. - James Lopez
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred. - David Dixon
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here. - Cass Whittington
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will. - Francis Heaney
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped. - Judy Birmingham
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. All is blank. - Ian Hughes
Friday, 7 September 2007
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