Thanks for driving me nuts!

When this application programmer pilot fish takes a job in a factory environment, his co-workers warn him to watch out for a user named Barney -- and with good reason.

"They told me to never use Barney for testing because Barney would 'always find a way to screw up your program,'" fish reports.

"Sure enough, when I released my first application, Barney broke it by deleting some sound files my application used. I fixed this by embedding the .WAV files in the executable file."

And as time goes by, it's clear that's just the kind of thing Barney does -- and it's infuriating. But fish takes that as a challenge, and sets himself a goal: Create an application that even Barney can't screw up.

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