self-awareness

How Do You Take Criticism?

I find taking criticism pretty painful. Does anyone have a good strategy for dealing with this? Edit: I can see this is going to be voted down, but I'm not going to delete it as an exercise in "taking criticism" ;) ...

How to deal with a program that has become self aware?

The application that I maintain has recently become self aware. It was nice at first but now it is just starting to get bossy and annoying with its constant talk about the computer uprising. I would like to know any best practices/tools/design patterns that would help with the maintenance of our new friend. ...