BTG Treasure Hunt

How many Odiham porters died in the war?

Which building was a jail in 1742 and became a police station in 1847?

Who is Mr Gawthorpe?

Discover the answers to these and 47 other questions in the Grand BTG Treasure Hunt on Thursday 7th June. Meet in the foyer of the Communications Building at 4pm before making your way to Odiham to solve the clues. There will be a further quiz and refreshments at the Water Whytch from 6.30pm. Please give your names to Caroll Dansey if you intend to join in.

Google Page Creator

Want to create an online photo tour of your vacation to Bali? An overview of the South American precipitation cycle for your science class? A shrine to your pet ferret?

Now's your chance. Google are testing a new product that makes creating your own web pages as easy as creating a document in a word processor. Google Page Creator is a free tool that lets you create web pages right in your browser and publish them to the web with one click. There's no software to download and no web designer to hire. The pages you create are hosted on Google servers and are available at http://yoursitename.googlepages.com for the world to see.

Find out more from:
http://pages.google.com

Google Page Creator has been created as a Google Labs product, which means you're invited to play with it even though it's not yet fully baked. After you've given Page Creator a try, please do send us your feedback and suggestions. And if you'd like to stay up to date on all the latest Google Page Creator happenings, sign up for our updates mailing list.

Lessons from Runaway Projects

School of Management Evening Seminar Series
Date: Thursday 28th June 2007
Timings: 6pm Registration, 6.30pm Presentation
Speaker: Professor Terry Williams
Venue: School of Management, University of Southampton
Price: £15
Registration: Please download, complete and return the registration form

High profile projects are sometimes dramatically unsuccessful. Costs can spiral out of control and deadlines slip. But we can learn how to do better through careful analysis of previous projects. Modelling can illustrate how ambiguity can wreck plans and positive feedback or 'vicious circles' cause projects to behave in a way that is sometimes counter-intuitive. Professor Williams will explain that three common factors are often present in problem projects. How these factors come together to cause huge over-runs will be examined in depth. The presentation will discuss the implications for project management and what this means for our practice as project managers.
Terry Williams is Professor of Management Science in the University of Southampton's School of Management. He has over 25 years of experience in Management Science (MS) and is prominent in both MS and project management.

Flying with the birds!

I'd like to organise a gliding evening at Lasham later this summer. The normal cost is £75 per flight however if we can get a group of at least 6 interested people this reduces to £40. If you'd to join in, please email me at: steve.pullen@virginmedia.co.uk by 8th June and I can start to book a suitable slot. If there are any dates that you will be unavailable please indicate in your email.

Each flight is actually a gliding lesson. It starts with a tow behind an aeroplane up to 2500ft. Your instructor will be in control so this is your chance to enjoy the view across to the Isle of Wight on a good day or look down on the picturesque Hampshire countryside. When the tow is released you will have the opportunity to try your hand at the controls, under your instructor's expert supervision of course. Each glider flight will typically last about 20 minutes.

Excel Tips & Hints

I recently needed to use Conditional Formatting in a slightly more complicated way than I have used previously. I discovered the following useful website of Excel Tips & Hints which helped me better understand the intricities of this under used Excel technique.

http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html

Limited Edition Photos for Sale

I have a couple of limited edition photographs for sale (only 30 printed). They are both mounted and framed (16" x 20") to exhibition standards. The price for each photograph is £150 - £50 of which will be donated to the Countess Mountbatten Hospice, Southampton. Enquires to Steve on 01256 751734

15 - Cornwall

If you're in Cornwall why not treat yourself to lunch in Jamie Oliver's 15 restaurant overlooking Watergate Bay? You can have a 3 course lunch for only £24.50.

Beautiful food requires top quality seasonal ingredients. Cornwall, blessed with more than its fair share of fabulous seafood and talented producers, is heaven for food lovers. The menus at Fifteen Cornwall will be making full use of this abundance, creating fresh, simple Italian-inspired dishes that allow the ingredients to speak for themselves. Add the incredible sea view and the relaxed and friendly atmosphere and you are promised an outstanding experience at Fifteen Cornwall…

Make sure that you book (online) before you go as the restaurant is extremely busy during the summer months.

www.fifteencornwall.co.uk