The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Every Last Cent!

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-05-31

"I'm going write a strongly worded letter and make sure I get every last 0.00000000000001E7 cent!" writes Jay F.

71 comments - Last comment @ 2013-06-06

Classic WTF: Top Entries of OMGWTF Part 1

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2013-05-28

To help inspire you to enter something great in the Second Olympiad of Misguided Geeks on The Daily WTF, here's the top entries from the first time we did this.

Readers’ Choice: Entry #100175 (Ivan Milyakov's OMG!OCRCAL)

With nearly 30% of the vote (and that’s after filtering for duplicates, such as Mr. 156.34.232.142’s 183 votes) the OMG!OCRCAL was clearly the readers’ choice. And how couldn’t it be with an English-based configuration file and a horrid OCR-based input?

16 comments - Last comment @ 2013-06-04

Announcing the Olympiad of Misguided Geeks at The Daily WTF - Part 2

by Mark Bowytz in Announcements on 2013-05-28

We know what you're thinking - summer is approaching making it the perfect time of year for a programming contest!

It's been a long time since we last did this, but we at The Daily WTF are excited to announce the Olympiad of Misguided Geeks at The Daily WTF Part 2 (or OMGWTF2 for short).

81 comments - Last comment @ 2013-06-02

Classic WTF: Effective Immediately

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2013-05-27

It's Memorial Day here in the US, giving us the day off, so here's a Classic WTF to tide you over until tomorrow.

Photo Credit: sparktography @ Flickr Every job has its quirks. That’s what Kirk reassuringly told himself on his first day of work after meeting the company’s most egregious quirk, The Colonel. Kirk wasn’t quite sure if the impeccably-dressed man’s gruff introduction – which solely consisted of looking Kirk up, then down, then up again, and scoffing “that’s a pretty sad excuse for a Double Windsor” – was in jest or contempt, so he stuck with a the more palatable label of quirky. Fortunately, by the time Kirk realized that deranged was much more appropriate than quirky, he knew that he’d never have to personally work with The Colonel: the chain-of-command simply wouldn’t allow for it.

52 comments - Last comment @ 2017-02-06

A Pixel of a Different Color

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-05-24

"I thought that I knew a thing or two about subpixels, but Google has proven to me that there are some subtle differences that I was not aware of," writes Joerg T..

76 comments - Last comment @ 2013-05-30

Bogotesting, Amazing Local Talent, and More Support Stories

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2013-05-23

Bogotesting - Submitted by Theo
I was helping a teammate debug an issue today, and I found myself at a loss when perusing the entry for the bug in our issue tracker. I present to you, Bogotesting:

Test Set: Negative Test Case 1337
Test: Bang around on keyboard in all areas of the application
Run: 11-17 till 12-01

129 comments - Last comment @ 2024-06-13

Screw You Oracle Interceptor!

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-05-17

"I work for an IT department in a large department store and while scanning through some old code, I ran upon this gem," writes Steve C., "I can't say that I disagree!"

61 comments - Last comment @ 2013-05-24

Where I Come From, We Don't Need July

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-05-10

"Someone FINALLY got it right!!" Farz wrote, "In my native language, we don't have translations for seven months out of the year. Way to go Windows Live!!"

59 comments - Last comment @ 2013-05-18

Fire Rescue, Troubled Widgets, and Other Support Stories

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2013-05-09

The company that Karl J. works for recently signed a contract with a big North American corporation and everybody’s really excited at the prospect. Practically overnight, their flagship product - a platform-as-a-service solution – would gain a boost of about 40,000 users and an accompanying in-stream of cash too.

But there was one detail that made everybody, well mostly management, feeling nervous: their client insisted on having 24/7 support. But, you know what? That’s OK! Karl’s employer hired a 3rd party agency to do the grunt work of front-line support and escalate non-trivial issues when they would arise, around the clock.

74 comments - Last comment @ 2017-08-10

What's This?

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2013-05-03

"I just wanted to know what a certain pending charge meant on my credit card, unfortunately the help text popup didn't know either," writes Alex N.

69 comments - Last comment @ 2013-05-10