The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

The Things That Should Not Be

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2017-07-28

"I tried to export my game to HTML5, but I guess it just wasn't meant to be," Edward W. writes.

16 comments - Last comment @ 2017-07-31

No Thanks Necessary

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2017-07-21

"I guess we're not allowed to thank the postal carriers?!" Brian writes.

23 comments - Last comment @ 2018-04-01

Unfortunate Timing

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2017-07-14

"Apparently, I viewed the page during one of those special 31 seconds of the year," wrote Richard W.

26 comments - Last comment @ 2017-10-04

Unmapped Potential

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2017-07-07

"As an Australian, I demand that they replace one of the two Belgiums with something to represent the quarter of the Earth they missed!" writes John A.

31 comments - Last comment @ 2017-07-11

Classic WTF: The Proven Fix

by Mark Bowytz in Feature Articles on 2017-07-04

It's a holiday weekend in the US, and I can't think of a better way to celebrate the history of the US than by having something go terribly wrong in a steel foundry. AMERICA! (original)--Remy

Photo Credit: Bryan Ledgard @ flickr There are lots of ways to ruin a batch of steel.

Just like making a cake, add in too much of one ingredient, add an ingredient at the wrong time, or heat everything to the wrong temperature, and it could all end in disaster. But in the case of a steel mill, we're talking about a 150 ton cake made of red-hot molten iron that's worth millions of dollars. Obviously, the risk of messing things up is a little bit higher. So, to help keep potential financial disaster at bay, the plants remove part of the human error factor and rely upon automated systems to keep things humming along smoothly. Systems much like the ones made by the company where Robert M. was a development manager.

43 comments - Last comment @ 2019-04-03