[via Miguel] Cool story in advance of Mexico presidential elections tomorrow. Basically, someone hacked the blog of the opposition party, forging a call to supporters asking them to “resist”. The mainstream media ran with it, despite being notified within an hour that it was a forgery, and spread a lot of FUD in the final […]
Business 2.0 says Ballmer is irrelevant. It’s typical that the tech press is repeating rumors, speculation, and basically piling on. I hate to be a Kool-aid pimp, but this is just silly. Ballmer came on-board when everyone said Microsoft was dead, and he doubled revenues in a six-year period. I challenge anyone to name a […]
I’ve run this blog on dasBlog for the past few years, but finally got tired of the comment spam and strange permalink bugs. I’m trading in for a new set of idiosyncracies with WordPress. Expect old posts and comments to be imported to this blog as I have time.
I have decided not to map the old […]
Shel quotes Gladwell, “Ideas … spread like viruses do”. Gladwell’s “Tipping Point” introduced many people to the basic ideas of memetics. Many people readingthat Gladwell line may have recognized a reference to ex-Softie Richard Brodie’s “Virus of the Mind”, which itself is really an attempt to popularize Dawkins.
In a 1983 column in Scientific American, reprinted […]
I couldn’t find this anywhere on the web, and needed some help from Visio team to figure it out, so here it is. If you want to get your shapes to layout using left-to-right flowchart format, use the CellsU property on the pagesheet:
Document doc = app.Documents.Add(””);Page page = doc.Pages[1];page.PageSheet.get_CellsU(”PlaceStyle”).FormulaU = “2″;page.PageSheet.get_CellsU(”RouteStyle”).FormulaU = “6″;// code to […]