Haiku Error Messages -------------------- Seeing my great fault Through darkening windows, I begin again. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. Wind catches lily Scatt'ring petals to the wind: Segmentation fault. First snow, then silence. This thousand dollar screen dies So beautifully. Server's poor response Not quick enough for browser. Timed out, plum blossom. Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Stay the patient course, Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone. The code was willing. It considered your request, But the chips were weak. A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone. Errors have occurred. We won't tell you where or why. Lazy programmers. Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Login incorrect. Only perfect spellers may Enter this system. Printer not ready. Could be a fatal error. Have a pen handy? This site has been moved. We'd tell you where, but then we'd Have to delete you. ABORTED effort: Close all that you have. You ask way too much. With searching comes loss And the presence of absence: "My Novel" not found. The Web site you seek Cannot be located, but Endless others exist. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Checkout is like that. You step in the stream, But the water has moved on. This page is not here. No keyboard present: Hit F1 to continue. Zen engineering? Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky, But we never will. To have no errors Would be life without meaning. No struggle, no joy. The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao, until You bring fresh toner. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. 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. -- Vectored by Moose Mansions (http://www.splange.freeserve.co.uk/)