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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.
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Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
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Wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault
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ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.
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First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
so beautifully.
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With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.
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The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.
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The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist
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Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down
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A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.
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Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that
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To have no errors
Would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
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You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
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Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
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