IMAGINE IF YOUR COMPUTER PRODUCED ERROR MESSAGES IN HAIKU
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* A file that big?
  It might be very useful.
  But now it is gone.

* The Web site you seek
  cannot be located but
  endless others exist.

* Chaos reigns within.
  Reflect, repent, and reboot.
  Order shall return.

* ABORTED effort:
  Close all that you have,
  You ask way too much.

* First snow, then silence.
  This thousand dollar screen dies
  so beautifully.

* With searching comes loss
  and the presence of absence:
  "My Novel" not found.

* The Tao that is seen
  Is not the true Tao, until
  You bring fresh toner.

* 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.

* Yesterday it worked.
  Today it is not working.
  Windows is like that.

* 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.

* 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.


-- 
NOTE: I did not write this.  I am publishing it on the web purely for the
enjoyment of the human race.  Apologies to anyone who performed or assisted
in the creation of this document; I would have credited you if I knew who
you were.           -- Alastair Irvine, <alastair@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>