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Error'd: Having a Beastly Time

The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology [U… April 17, 2026
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It's time again for a reader special, and once again it's all The Beast In Black (there must be a story to that nick, no?).

"MySQL is not better than your SQL," he pontificated, "especially when it comes to the Workbench Migration Wizard"

"Sadly," says he, "Not even gmail/chromium either."

"Updated software is available, but there are no updates!" he puzzled. "Clicking Install Now just throws that dialog right back in my face. I'm re-cursing." Zero, one, does it really make a difference?

"Questions" The Beast in Black "I do, in fact, have a question..."

One of the foundational guides to my [lyle, not bib] engineering career was John Bentley's Programming Pearls. These are not those. "Veni, vidi: vc. No pearls of wisdom here, just litter." says The Beast.

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