So much for Sudoku

Seems that James Crook, a professor in South Carolina, has come up with an algorhythm that solves any Sudoku puzzle, and he's going to publish it tomorrow. Fans of Sudoku are, needless to say, demanding his head on a pike. Crook himself dismisses Sudoku as "a trivial puzzle" and refuses to discuss the matter.

It should be noted that Crook's pen-and-paper algorhythm takes about an hour to solve a puzzle, while good Sudoku players can usually solve a puzzle in twenty minutes.

There's a message there, somewhere.