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                                     Borg

Sigh.

I hate web based applications, because as soon as you get used to the
interface—**BAM** some attention-deficit programmers [1] change how everthing
works, just because. Google Maps [2] is a good example of this. It's still
perhaps the best mapping application out there and I always use it, but every
few months they change how the entire interface works, destroying existing
patterns of use and wasting days, nay weeks of time as I attempt to learn how
to use the features I use, only to find out half of them have been removed,
because.

Ahhhhhhhhh!

But today I'm not here to bury Google Maps, but Facebook [3]. They broke my
posting application. The application I use when I post to this blog [4] and
send notification to Facebook that is posted on my … whatever that thing is
called at Facebook. My wall? Timestream? Spam channel? Whatever it's called.

Facebook changed how things work on the backend, and now I'm getting the
dreaded 803 error [5] (and of course there are no real answers there [6]).

Thank you Facebook.

Thank you a lot.

[1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
[2] https://www.google.com/maps
[3] http://www.facebook.com/
[4] https://boston.conman.org/
[5] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23615961/social-framework-returns-803-cannot-query-users-by-their-username-username
[6] https://xkcd.com/979/

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