Funny, I thought I knew that about global and was pretty sure it had to be right after the def, but couldn't find it in the docs (docs say 'has to be in same code block') so I left it where it was. I merely changed some variable names around. 'The Real WTF' indeed gave the correct...

I get charged about £25 each time something bounces from my Halifax debit account. That amount can go beyond my overdraft facility, say I'm £-500 and they charge me £75 worth of charges for 3 bounces. It will push me to £-575. I'm not sure what happens after that point since the one time that happened...

Oh...my...God. And still he wasn't even able to keep the paper straight on the scanner.

So this story is all over the place but I thought I'd post it here for anyone who doesn't check the various news site :¬)

The Nokia exploding-battery-recall is all over the tech newssites today, so I found myself wandering along to check if my battery was likely to a splode. Although I'm disappointingly unlikely to be on the receiving end of a delightful display of pyrotechnics, I did find an amusing display of WTF'ery...

Thus spake Morbii :Oh, I don't understand how this leads you to words failing you, though... Oh, that was just the tip of the iceberg. I didn't (can't, really) post any of the truly terrible code from this app, as it would give too much away. There are some real monsters lurking in here, like the game...

I found this little gem in a J2ME app here (method and var names have been altered slightly to protect the guilty): public void renderNumber(int number, Graphics g, int x, int y, int anchor) { int w = NumberWidth; int h = NumberHeight; g.setClip(x,y,w,h); g.drawImage(numberImg,(number * (-NumberWidth...