The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Squaring the Circle

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-06-13

Time Lord Jason H. has lost control of his calendar. "This is from my credit card company. A major company you have definitely heard of and depending upon the size of the area you live in, they may even have a bank branch near you. I've reloaded the page and clicked the sort button multiple times to order the rows by date in both ascending and descending order. It always ends up the same. May 17th and 18th happened twice, but not in the expected order." I must say that it is more fun when we know who they are.

10 comments - Last comment @ 2025-06-16

There's No Place Like

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-06-06

... London!
This week, we're showcasing some multiple submissions from two regular participants who fell into the theme. Everybody else is just going to have to wait for their turn next week.

Frist up it's Daniel D. "I wanted to see events for the dates I would be in London. Is Skiddle (the website in question) telling me I should come to London more often?" They're certainly being very generous with their interpretation of dates.

14 comments - Last comment @ 2025-06-09

Lucky Penny

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-05-30

High-roller Matthew D. fears Finance. "This is from our corporate expense system. Will they flag my expenses in the April-December quarter as too high? And do we really need a search function for a list of 12 items?"

19 comments - Last comment @ 2025-06-02

Mike's Job Search Job

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-05-23

Underqualified Mike S. is suffering a job hunt. "I could handle uD83D and uDC77 well enough, but I am a little short of uD83C and the all important uDFFE requirement."

10 comments - Last comment @ 2025-05-27

Teamwork

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-05-16

Whatever would we do without teamwork.

David doesn't know. "Microsoft Teams seems to have lost count (it wasn't a very big copy/paste)"

7 comments - Last comment @ 2025-05-16

Cuts Like a Knife

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-05-09

Mike V. shares a personal experience with the broadest version of Poe's Law: "Slashdot articles generally have a humorous quote at the bottom of their articles, but I can't tell if this displayed usage information for the fortune command, which provides humorous quotes, is a joke or a bug." To which I respond with the sharpest version of Hanlon's Razor: never ascribe to intent that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

16 comments - Last comment @ 2025-05-17

Charge Me

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-05-02

The lights are on here and the roof is intact and I'm grateful. Is anybody home? You decide.

Pharm fan Ian S. clucked "Perhaps they'll put those as dates on my headstone." If you're very lucky.

14 comments - Last comment @ 2025-05-11

Que Sera, Sera

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2025-04-25

It's just the same refrain, over and over.

"Time Travel! Again?" exclaimed David B. "I knew that Alaska is a good airline. Now I get to return at the start of a century. And not this century. The one before air flight began." To be fair, David, there never is just one first time for time travel. It's always again, isn't it?

24 comments - Last comment @ 2025-04-28