Poor design

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I have been busying myself with some reading and general related work. More and more I am putting myself into the position of a GIS developer rather than an operator - creating tools with ESRI's ArcObjects API. Whether this is "real" programming or not depends, I suppose, on your definition. I still consider myself something of a novice to the actual field of computer science, but I feel comfortable creating custom scripts and operator tools for ArcGIS in C#, Python, VB.NET, and T-SQL. I could say I am going to the trouble of learning all of this because it increases my earning potential, but it's actually a lot of fun. Computers are rather poor at what the human mind generally does - analysis and higher order modeling - and human minds simply cannot match the power of computers to instantly recall and organize memory (not to mention their potential for networking with the vast knowledge of the internet). Interfacing with a computer at progressively lower levels greatly increases the collaborative power that comes as a result of normal use, and it is a joy to be working in such a way.