Name Voyager

Just come across this interesting visualisation of names. Shows the popularity of names from 1880 to 2005. It's a Java thingy you can launch from here - Name Voyager. BTW, the data is from the US census so not many Harry's now but plenty of Britney's a few years ago!
Note: difficulty in finding out exactly which names are the most popular is there is a lot on display, colour coding is obviously note the full solution here! Anyway, it's quite fun and slick.

Whilst with the suits

Last week I accompanied the Lancaster Team of six 2nd year students to the IBM University Team Challenge (It used to be called the ThinkPad Challenge but this assumes that ThinkPads will be given as prizes rather than an IBM pen). We were well looked after and our boys and girl enjoyed their blindfold table football and steering the worms of death, but unfortunately didn't go home with a ThinkPad or even a pen. (I got a pen!).
During the morning introduction-to-wonderful-things-going-on-at-IBM session a guy played some nice short movies which give an insight into the training of salespeople at IBM ... take alook here on utube :-)