The Incident Log
Welcome to The IT Horror Stories Blog — the place where the chaos behind the screens gets a little more room to breathe. Here, we dive deeper into the incidents, outages, and questionable technical decisions that keep IT teams on their toes. From Shadow IT surprises and mainframe mishaps to DDoS attacks, failed migrations, and “temporary fixes” that somehow became production systems, we look at what happened, how people dealt with it, and what the rest of us can learn from it.
Written with the same dry humor and nerdy curiosity as the podcast, this blog is for anyone who loves technology, enjoys a good story from the strange world of IT, or simply wants to peek behind the curtain of real-world systems. Pull up a chair, grab your coffee, and join us — you are one of us.

Latest from The Incident Log
Real incidents, questionable decisions, technical rabbit holes, and the occasional rant. Here’s the latest from The Incident Log.
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Episode 28 : Call Center Down
If Only AI Could Diagnose Network Traffic Problems What happens when hundreds of call center…
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Jack’s Rant : PHP, Panic, and Technical Debt
PHP2Shell: Critical PHP Flaws, Emergency Patching, and Technical Debt Two critical PHP vulnerabilities. Emergency patches.…
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Episode 27 : Wrong Person, Right Skills
Technical Hiring Failures and Why Companies Mismanage IT Talent Companies complain that they can’t find…
