The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Good Time

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-09-04

Astute readers noticed last week that this editor (that is to say, me) had his own error'd failure to remember what day it was. Thank you for pointing it out promptly, and then proceeding to send in a bunch of examples of other sites calendar failures. Misery loves company!

Traveler's travails, from C_Chell "Trying to complete the form on https://www.ihg.com to tell when I plan to arrive at the hotel, I can't complete the form because of this little time problem."

13 comments - Last comment @ 03:41

Hello, New Mexico!

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-08-28

Peter G. shared with us yet another ordering bungled example of. "Should really say "please engage in an Easter egg hunt to find your language"."

26 comments - Last comment @ 2026-09-01

Failure, After Failure, After Failure...

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-08-21

We have a couple from Foo (AKA Foo) today, include a special text copy-paste

Foo shared "I know you usually post image WTFs here, but here's a text output from chromium:

6 comments - Last comment @ 2026-08-31

Zero to Zero in 0 seconds

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-08-14

"So many zeroes! I'm in." W00H000! Kivi S. "found this ad in the wild. This must be a very large jackpot, look at all those zeroes!"

10 comments - Last comment @ 2026-08-17

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. "

15 comments - Last comment @ 2026-08-13

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