Hey watchers! I wanted to make a fun, little journal to enjoy you!

This is the first one of it's kind, and it contains nothing less than COMPUTER HAIKU!



Everyday computer situations, written into the style of japanese poetry ahead:




Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

-- David Dixon





Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.

-- Judy Birmingham





wind catches lily
scatt'ring petals to the wind:
segmentation fault

-- Nick Sweeney





Hal, open the file
Hal, open the damn file, Hal
open the, please Hal

-- Jennifer Jo Lane





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

-- Howard Korder





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

-- Mike Hagler





Errors have occurred.
We won't tell you where or why.
Lazy programmers.

-- Charlie Gibbs





Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

-- Ian Hughes





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

-- Joy Rothke





A crash reduces
your expensive computer
to a simple stone.

-- James Lopez






No keyboard present
Hit F1 to continue
Zen engineering?

-- Jim Griffith





Printer not ready.
Could be a fatal error.
Have a pen handy?

-- Pat Davis




The ten thousand things
How long do any persist?
Netscape, too, has gone.

-- Jason Willoughby





Login incorrect.
Only perfect spellers may
enter this system.

-- Jason Axley





There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge

-- Rahul Sonnad





Server's poor response
Not quick enough for browser.
Timed out, plum blossom.

-- Rik Jespersen






Seeing my great fault
Through darkening blue windows
I begin again

-- Chris Walsh






Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?

-- David Carlson





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

-- Margaret Segall






Stay the patient course
Of little worth is your ire
The network is down

-- David Ansel






You step in the stream,
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

-- Cass Whittington





Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

-- Peter Rothman






The code was willing,
It considered your request,
But the chips were weak.

-- Barry L. Brumitt






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

-- Simon Firth