The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Temporally Confused

by Erik Gern in Feature Articles on 2014-02-26

Alex, web developer for Chronos Industries, thought she might be going crazy when the company's VPN server kept disappearing. Alex's VPN software would connect to the server without issue, but every half hour or so it would disconnect. It made FTP-ing any large files an exercise in frustration.

Her friend Karl, a research assistant from the upstairs Temporal Lab, was trying to tell her in layman's terms about one of his projects when it happened again. Until now she hadn't had any witnesses to confirm it when the IT department investigated.

The Build of the Baskervilles

by Erik Gern in Feature Articles on 2014-02-18

Dave sat in the conference room with his supervisor, Chilton. Every other participant of this meeting, supervisors of remote teams, looked on from a subdivided, giant projector screen. Each remote office was in a different time of day.

"Release 2.12 of TaskMaster was successfully pushed out this morning, UK time," Chilton said. "So far the user feedback has been above average. The new CSS transparent menus were a great addition from your team, Dave. Well done."

Dave nodded modestly.