Week 5

By wiesel |

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Already it is week 5 and weird things are happening in the lecture theater. Sound mishaps and internet dropping out. The weird and wonderful things that happen at 9pm in K-block. POD was complaining that he wasn't coherent. What's new? just kidding.

The lecture was a little like what you said when you subbed in for David Arnott for IT for Management Decision Making with a little bit of stuff about what OLAP was. Seems like POD is on a quest to prove that nothing is new. Although I agree, it's pretty hard to prove with a lot of things and boundaries are blurry. Last night Alex and I were talking about Ford and how they brought cars to the masses. I said something like 'all he did was use Colt's idea for the production line and applied it to cars' and it got me thinking about what invention actually is. Which I shall not get in to now, but it's pretty interesting.

This is probably going to be a short post this week cos i wanna dash off to COSTCO to see what it's like. I went to COSTCO in London and that was an experience.

More handy pivot stuff this week in the tut. it seems like you want to make us experts in Pivot tables. Not sure how much i want to be good at Pivot tables though (see last week's rant). Steve is as excited by everything as always. He and Olga seem to get along very well. The others in the tute are pretty quiet, it's normally infoholic, Olga and I talking most of the time.

Till next week...