from Salon.com

  Three things are certain:
  Death, taxes, and lost data.
  Guess which has occurred.

  -- David Dixon

  Everything is gone;
  Your life's work has been destroyed.
  Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?

  -- David Carlson

  I'm sorry, there's -- um --
  insufficient -- what's-it-called?
  The term eludes me ...

  -- Owen Mathews

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

  -- Peter Rothman

  Seeing my great fault
  Through darkening blue windows
  I begin again

  -- Chris Walsh

  The code was willing,
  It considered your request,
  But the chips were weak.

  -- Barry L. Brumitt

  Printer not ready.
  Could be a fatal error.
  Have a pen handy?

  -- Pat Davis

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

  -- David J. Liszewski

  Errors have occurred.
  We won't tell you where or why.
  Lazy programmers.

  -- Charlie Gibbs

  Server's poor response
  Not quick enough for browser.
  Timed out, plum blossom.

  -- Rik Jespersen

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

  -- Suzie Wagner

  Login incorrect.
  Only perfect spellers may
  enter this system.

  -- Jason Axley

  This site has been moved.
  We'd tell you where, but then we'd
  have to delete you.

  -- Charles Matthews

  wind catches lily
  scatt'ring petals to the wind:
  segmentation fault

  -- Nick Sweeney

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

  -- Mike Hagler

  First snow, then silence.
  This thousand dollar screen dies
  so beautifully.

  -- Simon Firth

  The Tao that is seen
  Is not the true Tao, until
  You bring fresh toner.

  -- Bill Torcaso

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

  -- Joy Rothke

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

  -- David Ansel

  A crash reduces
  your expensive computer
  to a simple stone.

  -- James Lopez

  There is a chasm
  of carbon and silicon
  the software can't bridge

  -- Rahul Sonnad

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

  -- Margaret Segall

  To have no errors
  Would be life without meaning
  No struggle, no joy

  -- Brian M. Porter

  You step in the stream,
  but the water has moved on.
  This page is not here.

  -- Cass Whittington

  No keyboard present
  Hit F1 to continue
  Zen engineering?

  -- Jim Griffith

  Hal, open the file
  Hal, open the damn file, Hal
  open the, please Hal

  -- Jennifer Jo Lane

  Out of memory.
  We wish to hold the whole sky,
  But we never will.

  -- Francis Heaney

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

  -- Judy Birmingham

  The ten thousand things
  How long do any persist?
  Netscape, too, has gone.

  -- Jason Willoughby

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

  -- Len Dvorkin

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

  -- Ian Hughes 

  With searching comes loss
  and the presence of absence:
  "My Novel" not found.

  -- Howard Korder