Computer HAIKU

HAIKU is an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin that has three lines. The following Haiku on the subject of computers have appeared on the Net and on e-mail lists.

Three things are certain:

Death, taxes, and lost data.

Guess which has occurred.

David Dixon

I'm sorry, there's...um,

insufficient what's-it-called?

The term eludes me ...

Owen Mathews

Windows NT crashed.

I am the Blue Screen of Death.

No one hears your screams.

Peter Rothman

Seeing my great fault

Through darkening blue windows

I begin again.

Chris Walsh

The code was willing,

It considered your request,

But the chips were weak.

Barry L. Brumitt

Printer not ready.

Could be a fatal error.

Have a pen handy?

Pat Davis

A file that big?

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.

David J. Liszewski

Errors have occurred.

We wont tell you where or why.

Lazy programmers.

Charlie Gibbs

Servers poor response

Not quick enough for browser.

Timed out, plum blossom.

Rik Jespersen

Chaos reigns within.

Reflect, repent, and reboot.

Order shall return.

Suzie Wagner

Login incorrect.

Only perfect spellers may

enter this system.

Jason Axley

This site has been moved.

We'd tell you where, but then we'd

have to delete you.

Charles Matthews

wind catches lily

scatt'ring petals to the wind:

segmentation fault

Nick Sweeney

ABORTED effort:

Close all that you have.

You ask way too much.

Mike Hagler

First snow, then silence.

This thousand dollar screen dies

so beautifully.

Simon Firth

With searching comes loss

and the presence of absence:

My Novel not found.

Howard Korder

The Tao that is seen

Is not the true Tao, until

You bring fresh toner.

Bill Torcaso

The Web site you seek

cannot be located but

endless others exist

Joy Rothke

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

There is a chasm

of carbon and silicon

the software can't bridge

Rahul Sonnad

Yesterday it worked

Today it is not working

Windows is like that

Margaret Segall

To have no errors

Would be life without meaning

No struggle, no joy

Brian M. Porter

You step in the stream,

but the water has moved on.

This page is not here.

Cass Whittington