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Changed haiku.txt so it matches the 06-find.md lesson
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"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",
"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",
"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",
"With searching comes loss|and the presence of absence:|\"My Novel\" not found.|-- Howard Korder",
"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"
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.

http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/01/26chal.html
Salon Magazine
1998
With searching comes loss
and the presence of absence:
"My Thesis" not found.

Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Software is like that.

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