Friday 7 September 2007

"Haiku Poem" Windows Error Messages

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