The Incident Log
Welcome to The IT Horror Stories Blog โ 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 โtemporary fixesโ 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 โ you are one of us.

Latest from The Incident Log
Real incidents, questionable decisions, technical rabbit holes, and the occasional rant. Hereโs the latest from The Incident Log.
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Episode 20 : Microcode Mayhem
How a Mainframe Timer Bug Slowed an Entire Development Team One day, a busy IBM-compatible…
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Jack’s Rants : AI Is The New Shadow IT
AI Shadow IT: Why Employees Are Quietly Building the Next IT Risk Artificial intelligence didn’t…
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Episode 19 : Melbourne Cup Meltdown
How a Betting System Crashed at the Worst Possible Moment Every year, the Melbourne Cup…
