The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Hey Kids, Don't Smoke in the Rain

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-01-25

As a parent, I'd prefer the middle choice in this one that Kevin G. sent in. It's large enough to block the elements and sends a powerful message to the kids.

61 comments - Last comment @ 2014-06-20

Website WTF - Asus Transformer Book

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2013-01-21

Creating websites so that they display the same on all browsers and platforms for all vendors is tough business. Designers aim for "One size fits all" but sometimes, even with the best of incantations, "One size fits most" is the end result.

Case in point, Eric's simple goal: learn more about Asus' Transformer Book. All that he wanted to do was to pull up http://transformerbook.asus.com/ on his Ubuntu laptop and marvel at the dynamic animations and glitzy transitions between product features but instead all he got was a screenful of ugly. No text styling, a couple of images, but mostly just blah-looking plain text.

83 comments - Last comment @ 2022-10-25

I'm not Null, I'm a Human Being!

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-01-18

"Xfinity's website seems to think that I'm 'null'," wrote Jon Klein, "I tried to change that by creating a new username but instead got stuck in an endless loop."

51 comments - Last comment @ 2013-01-29

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by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-01-11

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62 comments - Last comment @ 2013-03-28

Divide and Validate

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2013-01-07

In IT, what many developers mistakenly consider to be magic code or evidence of elite (aka "L337") hacker-type abilities actually turns out to just be some cleverly applied math concocted by a developer who chose to think outside of the box.

Take into consideration the following code that Piotr Kaminski submitted. I have no doubts that it validates user information just fine, but the fact that it does so by adding booleans and division is a new one for me.

105 comments - Last comment @ 2013-06-26

Not the Sharpest Blade in the Data Center

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-01-04

"Not the sharpest blade in the data center...if you know what I mean," wrote Sam C.

113 comments - Last comment @ 2013-01-09

Slow Down, You Click Too Fast

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2013-01-03

You know what really gets to me? People who open links too quickly. Haphazardly opening new tabs all over the place...it really grinds my gears.

Ok, I've never thought that, but apparently somebody did when they added the code that Jonathan Peppers found in an abstraction layer for System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser.

93 comments - Last comment @ 2013-01-15

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