Archive for March, 2007

OpenCoffee Meetup, London

I went along to the London OpenCoffee Meetup for entrepreneurs and investors yesterday. Many enthusiastic business people filling the Starbucks inside the otherwise quiet Esprit clothes shop on Regent Street provided an incongruous scene, but it works well and there was a steady buzz of conversation throughout the time I was there. If you are […]

Separation of Data and View

Simon Murphy’s blog is an interesting read for those of us keen to make the best use of Excel. Identified in his post on the disadvantages of spreadsheets is that not separating “data” from “view” is a bad thing. This is the key reason why I recommend keeping data in clean lists, without contamination […]