"Charles Simonyi, Bill Gates, Kim Il Sung, and Martha Stewart all into the one page."

Wow - if there was ever a party with those people all in one place - it would be a halloween party. I mean can you think of a scarier bunch?

(Yahoo! has! to! be! part! of! this!)

... Robert X Cringely is a fabrication of Ethernet inventor Bob "one trick pony" Metcalfe's rag Infoworld, right?

I only ask because you speak^wtype of Bob X as a real person ...

... and occasionally been subjected to the hideous codefuck that is "Hungarian notation", is there any chance of leaving him up there permanently?

"...the Multiplan spreadsheet, which was not so much the precursor of Excel as the reason Microsoft had to build it, and [...] the world's first wordprocessor with a spreadsheet user-interface. It took five years to repair the damage."

Well that's "innovation" for you and it is clearly what made MS the company it is today.

Richard Garriott? What that Richard Garriott?

Actually, Apps Hungarian notation is excellent:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

It's MS's Systems Hungarian notation that's shite.