Many thanks to my friend Simon for sending me these haiku alternatives to oft-seen Windows error messages - The haiku messages are just as informative as Microsoft's and they make you pause just long enough that you're able to fight the impulse to put a fist through the screen.

• A file that big?
  It might be very useful.
  But now it is gone.
  
• You seek a Web site.
  It cannot be located.
  Countless more exist.
  
• Chaos reigns within.
  Stop, reflect, and reboot.
  Order shall return.
  
• ABORTED effort:
  Close all that you have worked on.
  You ask way too much.
  
• Yesterday it worked.
  Today it is not working.
  Windows is like that.
  
• First snow, then silence.
  This thousand dollar screen dies
  So beautifully.
  
• With searching comes loss.
  The presence of absence.
  "Deadlines.doc" not found.
  
• The Tao that is seen
  Is not the true Tao
  Until you bring fresh toner.
  
• Windows NT crashed.
  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.
  
• You step in the stream
  But the water has moved on.
  Page not found.
  
• Out of memory.
  We wish to hold the whole sky,
  But we never will.
  
• Having been erased,
  The document you are seeking
  Must now be retyped.
  
• Serious error.
  All shortcuts have disappeared.
  Screen. Mind. Both are blank.