ERROR HAIKU

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

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

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 Vista 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.

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.

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

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

Maxims for the Internet Age
  • Home is where you hang your @

  • A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.

  • You can’t teach a new mouse old clicks.

  • Great groups from little icons grow.

  • Speak softly and carry a cellular phone.

  • C:\ is the root of all directories.

  • Don’t put all your hypes in one home page.

  • Pentium wise; pen and paper foolish.

  • The modem is the message.

  • Too many clicks spoil the browse.

  • The geek shall inherit the earth.

  • A chat has nine lives.

  • Don’t byte off more than you can view.

  • Fax is stranger than fiction.

  • What boots up must come down.

  • Windows will never cease.

  • Virtual reality is its own reward.

  • Modulation in all things.

  • A user and his leisure time are soon parted.

  • There’s no place like http://www.home.com

  • Know what to expect before you connect.

  • Oh, what a tangled Website we weave when first we practice html.

  • Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Net and he won’t bother you for weeks.

Top 10 Signs Your Cat Has
Learned Your Internet Password

10. E-Mail flames from some guy named “Fluffy.”

9. Traces of kitty litter in your keyboard.

8. You find you’ve been subscribed to strange newsgroups like alt.recreational.catnip.

7. Your web browser has a new home page: “Playcat”.

6. Your mouse has teeth marks in it … and a strange aroma of tuna.

5. Hate-mail messages to Apple Computer Corp. about their release of “CyberDog.”

4 Your new ergonomic keyboard has a strange territorial scent to it.

3. You keep finding new software around your house like CatinTax and WarCat IV.

2. On MSN you’re known as the IronMouser.

1. Little kitty carpal-tunnel braces near the scratching post.