This Modern World. Why, those damned Republicans!

This one is for Lee Bandy.
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distrait: Dictionary.com Word of the Day.

Wow... This is a adjective that well describes my state of mind last week, as my old project was killed, and I was waiting to find out who my new boss was, and what my job would be.
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From Better Living Through Software:
I remember about two years ago, my brother and I decided we wanted to use the MSN Messenger protocol for P2P communications. It took us about 40 minutes to look through the type library and figure out how to do it (with no inside "special" knowledge of Messenger required). I wondered for two years why nobody was using this as a platform. Now I know why -- apparently people have been convinced that the only software tools that are customizable must be C++ source code that compiles under gcc. The sheer simplicity of a language-neutral type library throws people into cognitive arrest.

I figured out that msn messenger was controllable this last weekend, unfortunately without the doc/.chm file I didn't know what to pass in the SendText header parameter (so I cheated..) . It's fair to say that things are customizable and cool, but that doesn't always remove the need for docs.
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