The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

An Identity Crisis

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2016-03-25

Ari S. writes, "Not only was the poor computer running Windows XP, it also had to suffer through having the Apple keyboard and mouse attached to it.

17 comments - Last comment @ 2016-03-28

You Can't Always Count on Regular Expressions

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2016-03-24

After spending the most of the afternoon searching, trying to solve a rather vexing issue, Adam found exactly the solution he was looking for and wanted to squirrel it away for later reference.

Sure - he could have added to "Favorites" in his browser like on every other website in the world, but there was something about the "bookmark" button on this particular site that called to him. It was more than a dumb link, it was a counter telling you how many people had bookmarked a resource, and you could bookmark it yourself.

23 comments - Last comment @ 2018-03-05

Adequate Enough

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2016-03-18

"Dell TechDirect's password policy is a lot like their computers," writes John, "Not the greatest, not the worse...just 'ok'."

41 comments - Last comment @ 2016-03-29

In Soviet Russia, Birthday Translates You!

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2016-03-11

"Chrome translator apparently has issue with the numbers 11 and 30 when translating mail.ru to English," wrote Marc B., "Interestingly, the Russian version of the site displays the numbers properly, so WTF Chrome?"

38 comments - Last comment @ 2016-03-18

An Error is Worth 10 Words

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2016-03-04

"This was a screenshot I took of an error message I got many years ago (when Win95 was fairly new) after opening one too many instances of Word," Andrew H. wrote.

17 comments - Last comment @ 2018-11-30