{"id":391,"date":"2007-03-01T14:07:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T14:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2007-03-01T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T14:07:52","slug":"wtf-what-could-be-worse-than-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2007\/03\/01\/wtf-what-could-be-worse-than-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF &#8211; What Could be Worse Than Failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone who knows me well probably knows I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of the website <em>The Daily WTF<\/em> for a few years now. This week Alex (the owner) caused quite a storm by re-naming the site to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worsethanfailure.com\" target=\"_blank\">Worse Than Failure<\/a><\/em>. Yesterday Alex posted a very good essay which explains his choice of new name and takes a very interesting look at what exactly causes the &#8216;perversions of information technology&#8217; we seen on the <em>Daily WTF<\/em> each day for the past few years. If you write software you really should have a read of <a href=\"http:\/\/worsethanfailure.com\/Articles\/What_Could_Possibly_Be_Worse_Than_Failure_0x3f_.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">What Could Possibly Be Worse Than Failure?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone who knows me well probably knows I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of the website The Daily WTF for a few years now. This week Alex (the owner) caused quite a storm by re-naming the site to Worse Than Failure. Yesterday Alex posted a very good essay which explains his choice of new name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech","category-programming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-6j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}