The Minority Report

I just about spit my milk out this morning when I saw this one from the DailyWTF. It’s funny because it’s almost true… :( “I understand some banks are short of cash these days,” writes Greg, “I guess this is one way of breaking the news.”Broke Bank – The Daily WTF

WOW! That is one hell of a password!! It used to be that I thought password locker utilities were stupid. It’s too the point where they are essential with 57+ passwords that you need to login to 3 websites and 7 different applications that you use on a daily basis. I know that at this [...]

I swear I’m not going to comment on every DailyWTF… I couldn’t help myself this morning when I read this and couldn’t stop giggling. See if you can spot the problem. One time, out of boredom, I wrote a little utility called BitVerifier. It would loop over a folder and check every bit of each [...]

I love these stories where the damnest little thing causes a major meltdown. We’ve become soooo reliant on technology that the slightest bump from an unlikely source causes the biggest problems. How many times have you been sent to diagnosis a printer problem and don’t check that it’s plugged in first? Or that there is [...]

First of all, let me thank all the readers of The Daily WTF for stopping by and making sure this stupid little blog wasn’t just a steaming pile of crap. My traffic has doubled…tripled…quadrupled since I linked to one of the posts on calculating PI using a DOS batch file. I mean seriously, that dude [...]

You have to see this shit to believe it. If you’ve, like me, ever programmed a DOS batch file…back in the day…you’ll really appreciate the shear WTF of this guy. He made a DOS batch file that can calculate Pi to precision! I’m going to include the code here because of the shear audacity of [...]

I told you this story… By Ken Levine: Who is the sexiest sportscaster? Forget the damn Oscars! PLAYBOY has announced it’s top five nominees for the “Sexiest Sportscaster of 2008”! And it’s a hot competition this year, gang. ESPN’s Erin Andrews (the Meryl Streep of this category) is looking to repeat. If the other contestants [...]