The Way Error Messages Should Be

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A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

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

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

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

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.

Windows NT crashed.
I am 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.

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

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.

Rather than a beep
Or a rude error message,
These words: "File not found."

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

I grabbed the ones above from http://www.mipmip.demon.co.uk/tidbits/funny014.html, but the ones you see below are from the depths of my mind.

Want to play a game?
Sadly, that is not possible.
You are on a Mac.

See your program run.
Ack! What is this I see here?
Unhandled exception.

Code monkey, code quick.
Over shoulder, boss looks unhappy.
Welcome to E. A.

10 Comments

I don't want to hear any gripes about two of my three not being error messages. Deal with it. :-P

Haha. Cute. Those sure would make computer life more fun:)

luv and pickles,
jesse!

::laughs:: I think I would probably handle my computer crashing a lot better if I got to read those.

Hash, Bang, an so on
Just another Perl hacker,
You're a skript kiddie

Game developers
All your base are belong to us
Translate properly

Ok...this reminds me...I'm not totally hip to all the computer lingo...but what the hell does 1337 mean?

LoL @ Jake and Adam. 1337 means "leet" to geeks (short and mispelled for 'elite').

Many stupid link names,
Registration easy to hack.
Obfuscate the code.

Aaaaaaah...I understand now...thanks for clearing that up

No problem Lou -- hear back on your interview yet? Are you now in charge of busting stuff?

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