Twitterholicism - The Silent Killer

OK, so it's turns out that my own life is the best source of new stories.

This actually happened this morning, though I changed a few names to protect the guilty (why I would want to protect them, I'm not sure). When I ran our crappy accessibility checker, the crappy site I was scanning started to throw a butt load of error messages - to the tune of 24Gb in the Web server log file - almost filling the partition! Sweet! I felt like a hacker, bringin' down the man's Web site. Sadly, I was clueless as to what I'd done until Prophead informed me. /sigh

I got nuthin'

OK, so I'm no Scott Adams. I'm out of ideas right now.

So here's you chance to get your worst Web development stories told in TFRL!!

I don't promise to use your story. I don't promise that if I use your story that I won't mangle it beyond all recognition. I don't promise that I'll change your name so that you don't get fired when your boss reads the cartoon (I don't think my boss has discovered TFRL yet).

As is fitting for TFRL, I'm looking for stories of incredible ignorance or incompetence (preferably both!!!) in the world of higher education web development. We seem to be having a slight shortage of both here right now... must be the tight economy.

Add a comment that you have a story and I'll contact you. Not gonna put my work email in a TFRL post, no way.

Torches and Pitchforks

"Jack Jefferson" (@JackJefferson) has gotten off way too easy lately. Time to fix that.

As far as I know, he's still barricaded in there.

Carts and Horses

I wish I could make this stuff up, but I don't have to. We had this very argument in a design team meeting yesterday.

I wanted to kill myself. Instead, I went back to my office and beat my minion. Minions FTW!

Telephone

This post was inspired by a co-worker. Sadly, this is all to often how things work around here.

This post was also inspired by this image, which brings us unending mirth in our office. You have to read about half the way down the thread before it gets entertaining. WARNING: if you are sensitive to the 'f'-word, you won't like it.

All I can say is that NARWHALS ARE AWESOME GOD DAMN.

Too late...

Hard to believe, but I just discovered EDU Checkup today. Great stuff, and Nick is very entertaining. I can honestly recommend this site to any web designer or coder.

And Nick, please please please don't review our site... I'm not sure that it would even get a 24. Oh, and I apologize for using your site in a cartoon without getting your permission first. I'm just hoping you have a keen sense of humor and no taste for retribution.

Oh sure, tell me you never did this...

I can't make this stuff up, and I can't tell a lie. This actually happened. I did this.

Learn from my experience. Don't be like me. Don't accidentally publish test pages meant for the dev server to the live web server.

This has been a public service announcement.