404 diktet

Så til noe helt annet, og rimelig nerdete. Jeg krangler litt med php for tiden, og gjør et forsøk på å finne gode kilder og fora for å lære. php.no lenker til fine guider hos hardware.no, og det er fint, men guidene er fulle av hull. Sider som ikke finnes. Da får vi fine 404-feilmeldinger. Hardware.no har dog fine 404-sider. De har til og med et dikt (som sikkert er kjent, men jeg har ikke sett det før). Det var så lunt at jeg bare må ta vare på det.

Here goes:

The 404 poem

It is said, "To err is human,"
That quote from alt.times.lore,
Alas, you have made an error,
So I say, "404."

Double-check your URL,
As we all have heard before.
You ask for an invalid filename,
And I respond, "404."

Perhaps you made a typo --
Your fingers may be sore --
But until you type it right,
You'll only get 404.

Maybe you followed a bad link,
Surfing a foreign shore;
You'll just have to tell that author
About this 404.

I'm just a lowly server
(Who likes to speak in metaphor),
So for a request that I don't know,
I must return 404.

Be glad I'm not an old mainframe
That might just dump its core,
Because then you'd get a ten-meg file
Instead of this 404.

I really would like to help you,
But I don't know what you're looking for,
And since I don't know what you want,
I give you 404.

Remember Poe, insane with longing
For his tragically lost Lenore.
Instead, you quest for files.
Quoth the Raven, "404!"