Nick;

Very funny stuff. I tried to obey the rules concerning number of words per line.

In the moonlight a worm,
Has visited your computer with infamous intent,
Be advised all is lost!

Tom



>From somewhere in the Internet:
>
>*****
>In Japan, they are considering replacing the impersonal and unhelpful
>Microsoft Error messages with Haiku poetry messages.
>
>Haiku poetry has strict construction rules. Each poem has only three lines,
>and 17 syllables: five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five
>in the third. Haiku is used to communicate a timeless message often achieving
>a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity-the essence
>of Zen:
>
>
>Serious error.
>All shortcuts have disappeared.
>Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
>
>Your file was so big.
>It might be very useful.
>But now it is gone.
>
>The Website 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.
>
>First snow, then silence.
>This thousand-dollar screen dies
>So beautifully.
>
>With searching comes loss
>And the presence of absence:
>"My Novel" not found.
>
>The Tao that is seen
>Is not the true Tao-until
>You bring fresh toner.
>
>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.
>
>:)