The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Midaslocator.com Zip Codddde Validation

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2012-07-31

Recently, Marc came upon a dilemma that all car owners can relate to - his next oil change was due soon.

Hoping to take advantage of Midas' online appointment scheduler, he found his nearest Midas garage at http://midaslocator.com/ and started entering his information. Unfortunately, when it came time enter his address information, Marc noticed something peculiar - the form validation wouldn't accept his zip code, or any zip code for that matter.

98 comments - Last comment @ 2012-08-13

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by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2012-07-27

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44 comments - Last comment @ 2012-11-19

A Heated Situation

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2012-07-25

Recently, some new people transferred into Evi's group after being swallowed up as part of a intercompany shuffle. After everybody got nestled into their new pocket of the cubicle farm, the topic of bringing over their server hardware came up.

The department's server room was the obvious choice for where to put the equipment, because well, that's where everything else was already.

51 comments - Last comment @ 2012-08-07

Tale of the Cryptic Encoding

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2012-07-05

Lee S. nodded gently as she re-read the message-board post.

Someone named Robbie had created a posting asking for assistance in resolving a problem with a simple Visual Basic .NET console application. It was used to retrieve and process product registrations and credit card transactions via the Internet for a piece of niche shareware.

97 comments - Last comment @ 2017-03-14

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Midaslocator.com Zip Codddde Validation

Sponsor Appreciation, The Operating System Cannot Run, and More Error'd

TDWTF Sponsors

A Heated Situation

Tale of the Cryptic Encoding