HAIKU ERROR MESSAGES
From a contest sponsored by online Salon Magazine (2/10/98 except "anonymous" items were taken from an email not attributed to Salon): Honorable Mentions
A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
� James Lopez
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
� David J. Liszewski
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.
Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.
� Charlie Gibbs
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
� Suzie Wagner
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
� Simon Firth
Hal, open the file
Hal, open the damn file, Hal
open the, please Hal
� Jennifer Jo Lane
Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.
� Anonymous
I'm sorry, there's � um �
insufficient � what's-it-called?
The term eludes me ...
� Owen Mathews
Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.
� Jason Axley
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
� Francis Heaney
Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?
� Pat Davis
Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again
� Chris Walsh
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
� Ian Hughes
Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.
� Rik Jespersen
Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
� Anonymous
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
� Bill Torcaso
The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.
� Barry L. Brumitt
The ten thousand things
How long do any persist?
Netscape, too, has gone.
� Jason Willoughby
The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist
� Joy Rothke
There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge
� Rahul Sonnad
This site has been moved.
We'd tell you where, but then we'd
have to delete you.
� Charles Matthews
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
� Anonymous
To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
� Brian M. Porter
wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault
� Nick Sweeney
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
� Peter Rothman
With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
+ACIMy Novel+ACInot found.
� Anonymous
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
� Margaret Segall
You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
� Cass Whittington