If you’re the kind of person who goes outside and moves, check out mapmyrun.com. It’s a fantastic free google mashup that lets you map out routes by clicking anywhere on the map, without needing addresses. You can violate street boundaries, go the wrong way on one-way streets, claim you’re running in the Atlantic Ocean even, and then it gives you distance stats and a nice elevation graph. Excellent.
The first question here is who could possibly think it would be okay to give a message like this to a hapless end user. But, as I saw this message every day for over a year, I also wondered:
Why does my object variable need to be set?
What does it need to be set to?
How does one set an object variable?
For that matter, how does one unset an object variable?
What is the object in question, anyway?
Why is there no perceivable difference in performance when an object variable is not set?
And, most importantly, WTF?