>>Umm, no. It's just the way I do it more often than not. But I don't live in the real world where hard-coding a machine is going to cause fits of woe.
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>Can I PLEASE move to your world? :-)

Don't think that it's all ivory tower for me. I have to pretend to live in the real world, so as to not ship software that won't work in your world. Why do you think I hang out here? :-)

Oh, and we're always hiring if you're just itchin' to live in the ivory tower of Building 41 on the Microsoft main campus. Click here for our open positions. A knowledge of why manhole covers are round is required. :-)