Thanks for the comment!

Two responses:
* Ha, yes, you are right! I have a hard time turning it off. At least I didn't say it was super-duper-uber-fantastically-magically-splendidly good stuff :)  BTW, the scientific paper is much more scientifically pure and objective!
* Microsoft products:  Excel for the chart and PPT for the border and green thing.  MS really stepped up their game with Office 2010.