OddThinking

Microsoft Visio 2007 has some new shapes in the Drawing Tool Shapes template, which give me better drawing options for circles.

I am doing a little nerdy happy dance.

Alphametics (aka verbal arithmetic, cryptarithmetic and others) puzzles are an old puzzle where letters are substituted for numbers in simple equations. Go search for alphametics for lots of examples.

These puzzles never really captured my fancy, which is, weirdly enough, why I recently implemented a “puzzle helper” to help solve them.

There are lots of major issues with Internet Explorer that I wish they would fix. Here is a really, really minor one that annoys me again and again.

A short diatribe on information presentation