The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Internet is Broken - Time to Get a New Phone

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-10-25

"I had only had my new phone for a few days when I got this message," Robert N. wrote, "Maybe I should just throw away the phone, because clearly, nothing works."

53 comments - Last comment @ 2013-11-08

Book Now and Get Your Threeth Night Free!

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-10-18

"I was shopping around for affordable vacation packages and found this on Expedia," John wrote, "Glad to know my threeth night will be comped!"

65 comments - Last comment @ 2013-10-22

A Scrubbing Bubble

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2013-10-17

Matt was thrilled.

Finally, at long last, he had received the opportunity to rewrite one of the company's most overly complicated, fault intolerant, and important services. Over the years, it had achieved a "widowmaker" status where it was famous for crashing whenever it encountered one bit of uncommon (like accented characters) or mis-keyed data, often at the most busiest periods. There was talk among the teams for years of re-engineering the process but, because of its reputation, the code was deemed too gnarly and therefore too costly to fix...until now.

107 comments - Last comment @ 2013-10-26

Free Optical Moose Inside

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-10-11

"I recently bought a new power brick for my Asus Eee PC netbook. It was supposed to come with a free optical mouse," writes Roberto, "However, I was surprised to find that I was sent an optical moose instead."

76 comments - Last comment @ 2013-11-06

Top Secret BSOD

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-10-04

Rafael Cortes wrote, "Apparently, the folks who created the History Channel's show, America's book of Secrets, decided that a BSOD text qualifies as 'high tech'."

55 comments - Last comment @ 2013-10-07