The return of 'Computer Haiku'

A couple of days ago, a friend sent me (and others) an e-mail containing some of the famous 'Haiku computer error messages' that were doing the rounds a few years ago. I laughed as much to see them again as I did when they first came out, and I thought you might enjoy them too: so here they are.

(For those who don't know Haiku, it's a form of poetry from Japan consisting of seventeen 'linguistic units', known as a mora or on, similar to a syllable, in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 moras respectively. The doggerel below doesn't always scan precisely, but hey - what do you expect from an Internet meme?)

The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.

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

Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

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

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

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

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

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

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.

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

Peter