That I'm headed toward a stack overflow.

Snarky: Your self-review says you're fighting the normalization of deviance in your self-review.  What does that mean?
Title: That I'm headed toward a stack overflow.

I pointed out that meant they should embrace fault tolerance.

Fault tolerance and graceful degradation.  It's been exciting to see graceful degradation get so much more attention in the web design circles as everyone debates proactively coding for HTML5.  Brian Hogan's book, HTML5 and CSS3: Develop With Tomorrow's Standards Today, is a very good book on HTML 5 and includes loads of advice on how to gracefully degrade.

Title: I pointed out that meant they should embrace fault tolerance.
Snarky: When they gave me my annual review, they realized I suffer from graceful degradation.

Is that personal or professional development?

When I plug year end reviews into Google, the first result as very little nice to say about their efficacy.  Having spent a number of years at large companies myself I never really trusted the process much, largely because of issues like these - noted the be article above:

If you work in a publicly held company, this means that your maximum raise and bonus have been determined before your personal performance has been assessed.

What's worse is that the good managers who want to reward their stellar employees are burdened with the knowleged that it's a zero-sum game so giving one person more means giving someone else less which often leads to everyone getting about the same.  Unless, of course, you're at the top.  (ht wikipedia)

Your first goal for 2012 should be to work toward the elimination of the goal system

I didn't really think ++ was appropriate

It's not a self-fulfilling prophecy if you impose it on me

My most insightful mid-year review ever!

There's no way I'll make a meets expectations by end of year.