Ah yes, I remember one of my favorite assets being my mouse driver so that I could have mouse support in my applications...and then the happiness of porting it

Ah yes, I remember one of my favorite assets being my mouse driver so that I could have mouse support in my applications...and then the happiness of porting it to Pascal from C and having it work in there too...nice big binary arrays to define what cursors look like...I'm glad I don't write mouse drivers or having to double buffer graphics anymore -- but on the other hand, figuring out everyone else's APIs, languages, frameworks, each with their own style, is a pain too. Sometimes I find a really awesome javascript library that does exactly what I need it to do, but I find configuring it is a pain, or it is missing just one or two things that I need and I'm reading the source code and I really don't want to edit it...so I just write my own. Oh while I'm ranting -- all you people that are making your ridiculous number of JQuery add-ons that do almost the same thing as tons of other add-ons, or your CSS+JQuery image slide that has been done a hundred times before just so that you can prove you have figured out how to write basic javascript and so you wrote something you've already seen a hundred times before to get some more traffic to your blog that hasn't said anything new for months now....please, stop it...stop it, stop it....your ruining the quality of my google searches. Really, you don't need to post all the time, we have readers now, we don't have to individually check back on your blog all the time, write when you have something to say, not to hit a quota. Ramble complete.