The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Time Wounds All Heels

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-08-07

Looked to the past for some time-traveling entries to round out a themed post. They're 25% fresh.

Robert apparently got a notification of a planned past delivery. It could be just a case of two systems that don't report different time zones, but even so, that's a wtf. Says he: "I just received an email from OnePlus this morning letting me know they have updated the planned delivery date for my order to Yesterday. I guess the delivery driver is going to time travel to get there on time since it still hasn't arrived. "

12 comments - Last comment @ 07:37

I Believe In Lingonberries

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-07-31

I've never been a huge fan of their furniture but I will happily demolish a plate of meatballs.

Jan agrees "My loyalty to this Swedish megastore is immeasurable."

10 comments - Last comment @ 2026-08-05

The Song that Never Ends?

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-07-24

"Watch to the end", the scammers demand. In today's episode of Error'd, the end is a long time coming. But at least it's amusing. In the meantime, Amazon irked and/or terrified thousands of their customers last week by mailing out ridiculously inflated bills. It's been covered extensively elsewhere but why should we miss all the fun?

It was Willy who worried "Amazon prices seem to have crept up this month, finance are going to have something to say"

22 comments - Last comment @ 2026-07-31

Princess Pricing

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-07-17

Sam suggests this Error'd indicates "Disney+ preparing the ground for usage-based billing." I'm intrigued by the idea that Disney might charge by the minute, but I suspect the reality is far more mundane.

9 comments - Last comment @ 2026-07-19

Einfach so

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-07-10

Do you say "a FAQ" or "an eff eh cue"? Peter says eff eh cue I think.

"This is a test" Peter G. harrumphed testily. "Create an FAQ with exactly nine entries. Nine? Nine."

18 comments - Last comment @ 2026-07-15

Kaids Hen 2025

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-07-03

On the recurring transport beat, this week brings us a handful of wtfs relating to mass transit. Nothing private.

"Thank you for traveling with Deutsche Bahn" sneers Philipp H. bitterly, explaining "The German railroad company sadly is famous for often being late and also has lots of other issues. While booking my next trip I'm asked to pick my seats for the reservation. - Looks like they now stack seats on each other or on the table. - hopefully the seats facing the wall at least have a window there. - winning the jackpot lottery also seems more likely than understanding their seat numbering system."

16 comments - Last comment @ 2026-07-15

Fi fa foe

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-06-26

First up this week is a little story about a fifafail. I do wonder if this was a failure of the television station, or whether there was something more to it than that.

Hercules wrote to alert us to these World Cup shenanigans, explaing "At least the flags were correct. And yes, this was live TV. The host got the country names correctly, and even called out that the written text was wrong"

15 comments - Last comment @ 2026-06-30

Microbits

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-06-19

This week we have got a couple of Mathanon's. Maybe they're the same person, maybe they're not, there's really no way to know!

Frist anon has a "Numeric fun fact" for us: "Got a form sent from work to express interest in some event. They actually enforced the validation that the answer must be a number, so I submitted "42"." Bravo.

23 comments - Last comment @ 2026-06-28