• Chad (unregistered)

    HOOOORAY!

    captcha: it's about damn time you came to your senses (again)

  • (cs) in reply to canuckotter
    Actually, the real problem is that he failed to proactively engage shareholder synergies of the SOA-based change management process.

    Sorry, but you failed to use the words "paradigm," "enterprise," or "out-of-the-box." You'll never make upper management.

  • Steve (unregistered)

    Call it whatever you want, to me and everyone I know, it is:

    "The Daily"

    which is short for "The Daily What The F*@#!"

    As always, loving the content!

  • Just Some Guy (unregistered)

    Needs more XML.

  • Trawn (unregistered)

    How about Late Alex (instead of worrying about silly name changes) invests in server upgrades/ technologies that don't bring the site to crawl/ cause over 10 second page load times?

  • wiregoat (unregistered) in reply to Fish Basket Gordo

    I am going to work this analysis into at least one email a day.

  • dwe (unregistered)

    just wondering... two alexes covering the daily wtf of it-people on different sites seems a bit like too much coincidence :-) best wishes. dwe

    captcha: plaga - how we sometimes name users...

  • (cs) in reply to Ror
    Ror:
    Seraph:
    quamaretto:
    Dave:
    Thought you could outsmart us, eh? It didn't work for KFC, and it won't work for you!

    KFC?

    For those who arn't aware: In the states there was a resturant chain called "Kentucky Fried Chicken" which served fried chicken (who'd have guessed!). When eating healthy started to become a big thing, someone decided that having the word "fried" in your name was probably a bad thing, so they changed their name to "KFC".

    Wrong, and here's the link that lists the name change, yet again:

    http://www.snopes.com/lost/kfc.htm

    I hate to burst your bubble, but that article is part of the "Lost Legends" section of Snopes, which... well, let's just say, try clicking on the "More information about this page" link at the bottom of that article.

    In short, nyaah nyaah, you fell for it.

  • (cs) in reply to Jon
    Jon:
    You're afraid to say 'Fuck'? What the failure is wrong with you?

    Perhaps some of us have the class and education to not have to resort to profanity without a reason? Or work in an environment where the use of such profanity is not allowed and can actually be used as a reason for termination?

    It has nothing to do with fear. It has to do with courtesy, and a good upbringing. My mother taught me manners.

  • A Nonny Mouse (unregistered)

    Yay! I was beginning to feel disincentivised :-\

  • KM (unregistered)

    One word to explain the whole name changing fiasco:

    Irony.

  • (cs) in reply to brrrrrrr
    brrrrrrr:
    My idea would have been to give the site TWO NAMES!! Show the "The Daily WTF" logo for www.thedailywtf.com and the "Worse Than Failure" logo for www.worsethanfailure.com.

    Ofcourse, the website www.thedailywtf.com would replace all text "Worse Than Failure" to "The Daily WTF" and www.worsethanfailure.com would replace the text vice versa.

    I was gonna post to suggest that exact same thing!
  • ML (unregistered)

    The real WTF is in response headers:

    Set-Cookie: HPDISPALL=N; domain=.worsethanfailure.com; path=/
  • Corporate Cog (unregistered)

    So what does wtf officially stand for?

  • Larry Sheldon (unregistered)

    "letatio"

    Is that something naughty, or is that a new Starbucks offering?

    Anyhoo...the important question is:

    How come I only got one set of stickers out of all of that?

    Reminds me of years (eons?) ago when I was part of a Project to mechanize the telephone directory by capturing the data from service orders via massive changes to the Billing and Collecting system.

    Some of the early-in-the-daily-process edits were installed to scrub the data on its way to the existing Master Files (what we called databases then). These runs re-processed data that had already posted to see what kinds of errors needed to be dealt with at Conversion.

    This added processing was called an Accounting Method, Utilizing Control (everything involving computers was a feature of Accounting (Revenue Accounting, in this case) --my title as a programmer was Methods Accountant).

    So. Somebody calling one of the nine computer rooms in the system ("computer room" is what we called "Data Centers" in those days--the ones with petroglyphs were called "Caves") might inquire "what are y'all doing?" and get the answer "Why, we are running AMUC!"

  • (cs) in reply to Corporate Cog
    Corporate Cog:
    So what does wtf officially stand for?

    What the fuck do you think it stands for?

  • Ponedonkey (unregistered)

    wewerethedailywtfthenworsethanfailureartistknownasprincenowknownasasymboldethkloksatansatinkillmedennisquadeohjesuschristbannanas.com would be better. And it make more sense.

  • A Nonny Mouse (unregistered) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    Corporate Cog:
    So what does wtf officially stand for?

    What the fuck do you think it stands for?

    i'm guessing that cog meant "wtf does wtf mean ON THIS SITE"

  • chazwazzler (unregistered)

    I think we should call it "The Daily WTF Classic"

  • (cs)

    Next time, how about doing the survey BEFORE the change ?

  • David Walker (unregistered) in reply to Seraph
    Seraph:
    quamaretto:
    Dave:
    Thought you could outsmart us, eh? It didn't work for KFC, and it won't work for you!

    KFC?

    For those who arn't aware: In the states there was a resturant chain called "Kentucky Fried Chicken" which served fried chicken (who'd have guessed!). When eating healthy started to become a big thing, someone decided that having the word "fried" in your name was probably a bad thing, so they changed their name to "KFC".

    Yes, but they recently changed their name back to Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  • Chris Kelley (unregistered) in reply to Penguin

    Why don't you just say that the name has changes to "The Daily Worse Than Failure"?

    I mean after all, it fits, doesn't it?

  • Penice (unregistered) in reply to Penguin

    You suck

  • Me (unregistered)

    I think you've broken the redirects with all these changes. My old bookmark for www.worsethanfailure.com goes in a loop.

    http://www.worsethanfailure.com Redirects to: http://www.worsethanfailure.com/Default.aspx Which redirects to itself forever.. so people who didn't see the name change are probably confused.

  • Some Guy (unregistered)

    Hahahah, that was a good post.

  • Greg (unregistered)

    This new, new, new name will obviously fail like all of the previous ones because it is not enterprisey enough. In all of your explanation of the failure of the previous names I saw no real acknowledgement of the problems of using your new, new, new name in the kind of worldwide, multi-location, multi-vendor, multi-OS, multi-database world we live in today.

  • JL (unregistered)

    Note to Alex of Late 2007: Your days are numbered.

  • Phoenix (unregistered)

    What's wrong with using both the Original Name and the New Name? Like the previous poster said, spelling WTF out as "Worse Than Failure" allows some people to use this site in a family-friendly way, while the rest of us may prefer the shorter WTF (and supply our own "unofficial" meaning).

    So, you still have both domain names, right? You can have the same content on both sites. You could even set it up to display different logos depending on which domain is being used.

    Considering your audience, you could probably get a lot of help setting this up, if you need it. ^_^

  • Drone (unregistered)

    Yay! We're back!

  • Jay (unregistered)

    The forum links appear to be broken due to the name change:

    Server not found Firefox can't find the server at forums.worsethanfailure.com.

  • Jon (unregistered) in reply to Xandax
    Xandax:
    The Daily File Not Found
    The Daily Funny Not Found
  • GlobalWarmingDefeatsPenguin (unregistered) in reply to Penguin

    Spelling out "Worse Than Failure" makes it easier for me to share some of the articles with my high school computer science students. Please consider spelling it out once again so it is obviously school appropriate.

    No, never do that again!

    After all these months, I can finally come back to this site. Don't ever take that away from me!

  • (cs)

    I do hope that you've fully defined the requirements and specifications of the process improvement process. Without a full suite of monitoring and performance metrics, the process improvement process will fail in the same way that the site renaming process failed.

    For this reason, I'd like to better understand your processes for monitoring the site rename process improvement process, as well as the process for dealing with any deviations in the site renaming process improvement process monitoring process.

    I also recognize that there will be a large amount of data to process in the site renaming process improvement process monitoring process contingency process, and I would like you to know that I am available to help you with the site renaming process improvement process monitoring process contingency process data processing process development if you find yourself shorthanded.

    Please advise us of your progress on these processes.

  • Mr. Wha??? (unregistered)

    name changes. WTF??

  • (cs) in reply to Penguin
    Penguin:
    Spelling out "Worse Than Failure" makes it easier for me to share some of the articles with my high school computer science students. Please consider spelling it out once again so it is obviously school appropriate.

    Thank you.

    Allow me to introduce you to my very good friends, Find and Replace.

  • featheredfrog (unregistered) in reply to s.

    Nobody seems to want the cases of "NEW Coke" I stockpiled... :(

    Sometimes a F-up is only a four-letter word...

  • Anony Moose (unregistered) in reply to Zylon
    Zylon:
    To be fair, the KFC name-change wasn't KFC's idea. Though the reasons behind it are more than worthy of WTFery.

    http://www.snopes.com/lost/kfc.htm

    Congratulations. You have found an entry in The Repository of Lost Legends. It's amazing how few people understand this practical lesson in the validity of argument by appeal to authority. :)

    http://www.snopes.com/lost/lost.htm

  • (cs) in reply to KenW
    KenW:
    Jon:
    You're afraid to say 'Fuck'? What the failure is wrong with you?

    Perhaps some of us have the class and education to not have to resort to profanity without a reason? Or work in an environment where the use of such profanity is not allowed and can actually be used as a reason for termination?

    It has nothing to do with fear. It has to do with courtesy, and a good upbringing. My mother taught me manners.

    Class? Education? Fear? Courtesy? Good Upbringing?

    Manners? It's a fucking URL, you dolt. You don't even have to whisper it to a friend. If necessary, you can always incant the Magic Number: "74.50.106.245". Ooh, I'm getting naughty shivers all over.

    Fuck me, I'm glad I only went to Oxford and Cambridge. I shudder to think what your formative years were like.

    Did you ever have fun? Will you ever be able to extract that hair up your arse?

    And could you please let us know of this utopia where you work, so that those of us who would find it suffocating and unbearable can avoid it, and the remaining Wee-Frees, Wowsers and uptight wankers can sign up for a, no doubt, fun- and humour-filled working life?

  • Ben C (unregistered) in reply to Penguin

    School-appropriate and WTF go together like peas and carrots.

  • Rick (unregistered)

    WTF??

  • Rick (unregistered) in reply to real_aardvark

    See, there's that lack of manners buddy was mentioning.

  • (cs)

    The Daily WTF is dead. Long live the Daily WTF.

    For some reason, the main page wouldn't let me select 'full articles' because it thought I did not have cookies enabled and then drove opera to 100% CPU usage before crashing soon after. It seems after two+ years (Member since 2005-12-07 Last visted 2006-09-27, has it really been that long?) the real WTF is still the forum software.

  • freelancer (unregistered)

    Wait... Does this mean it's The Daily What The Frell again, or is it "still" The Daily Worse Than Failure? Either way, I need a new sticker.

  • freelancer (unregistered) in reply to freelancer
    freelancer:
    Wait... Does this mean it's The Daily What The Frell again, or is it "still" The Daily Worse Than Failure? Either way, I need a new sticker.
    Or maybe it's The Daily What The Failure?
  • (cs) in reply to s.
    s.:
    anonymoose:
    So does this make my "Worse than failure" sticker worthless or a collectible?
    Not at all. It will make for an entirely unique and special memento of the short Time Of The Mistake.
    Is that like the Time of New Coke?
  • The Shadow (unregistered)

    I actually liked "Worse Than Failure" better... but all well...

  • Morty (unregistered) in reply to Phoenix
    Phoenix:
    What's wrong with using both the Original Name and the New Name?

    Indeed. I've used this technique to support multiple userspaces with slightly different requirements on a single server with a single codebase. Each userspace gets its own hostname, pointing at the codebase. The code produces relative URLs. The code tests for the hostname portion of the URL it was called as, and can provide configurable behaviors (including trivial things like logos) based on the hostname.

    You end up with one codebase transparently supporting two or more sites. Depending on requirements, you might either merge or partition the data (in this case, article and comments).

    • Morty
  • Quincy5 (unregistered)

    I know this may not be the correct place, but since there is no way to contact Alex (or another admin or so of this site) by mail I do it this way. The forums are completely unreachable.

  • whoey (unregistered)

    here's my vote for

    www.thedailywtfisitcalledtoday.com

    :D

  • Erock (unregistered) in reply to Penguin

    So does this mean that you will be outsourcing your naming development to India in your next product cycle? This only seems like the nest logical step...

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