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Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:28 pm
by David Usherwood
Starts tomorrow. Anybody going? I'll be there (albeit detouring via a Shuttle launch at Stephen Waters' request....)
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 3:02 pm
by Steve Rowe
That's a very subtle piece of gloating! How's Florida??
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 3:53 pm
by mattgoff
Sadly no, but assuming they keep in in FL I'll be there next year. I bid adieu to Blighty (for good) in three weeks!

Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 4:10 pm
by George Regateiro
Budget cutbacks hacked the Forum out of my plans.
Oh well there is always next year.
If you could keep the rest of us informed with any important news that might come up it would be greatly appreciated.
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 4:26 pm
by Steve Rowe
Budget cutbacks hacked the Forum out of my plans.
And you are actually based in Florida....
Sadly no, but assuming they keep in in FL I'll be there next year. I bid adieu to Blighty (for good) in three weeks!
Sadly no, but assuming they keep in in FL I'll be there next year. I bid adieu to Blighty (for good) in three weeks!
Why the smiley face, you are going to miss the Summer! Leaving drinks??
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 4:39 pm
by George Regateiro
Steve Rowe wrote:Budget cutbacks hacked the Forum out of my plans.
I was asked to cut one of my two scheduled trainings. I figured I would get more out of the .NET training I am attending then forum.
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 8:59 pm
by Alan Kirk
Steve Rowe wrote:
MattGoff wrote:Sadly no, but assuming they keep in in FL I'll be there next year. I bid adieu to Blighty (for good) in three weeks!
Why the smiley face, you are going to miss the Summer!
Summer? In En-gur-land?
You guys have a
summer over there???
Wow, when did that start happening?
This global warming thing must be worse than reported...

Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 11:33 am
by mattgoff
Steve Rowe wrote:Budget cutbacks hacked the Forum out of my plans.
And you are actually based in Florida....
Sadly no, but assuming they keep in in FL I'll be there next year. I bid adieu to Blighty (for good) in three weeks!

Why the smiley face, you are going to miss the Summer! Leaving drinks??
For your consideration:

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Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 10:26 pm
by Alan Kirk
mattgoff wrote:Steve Rowe wrote:
Why the smiley face, you are going to miss the Summer! Leaving drinks??
For your consideration:
Well, yes, I do concede the downside there; having to return to archaic measurement units like degrees Fahrenheit. (And miles, pounds and ounces, gallons, acres, pecks and quarts, roods and hogsheads.)
It's been 34 years since we got rid of that {bleep}, and it ain't long enough ago for my liking.
On the plus side they at least had decimal currency long before either of us. (
43 years since we got rid of the accursed pounds, shillings and pence and again, not long enough for my taste. I'd hate to have to have developed a TM1 model in THAT currency system...)
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 9:30 am
by mattgoff
I hear you on the miles, pounds, etc (as a rceovering engineer myself), but I prefer F over C as it's more granular; a 1C shift is 2x (absolute) that of 1F. Then again, England has the weirdest mix of measurements I've ever seen. People are weighed in stone (wtf, a pound derivative anyway), but everything at the grocery is metric. The again, speeds are mph, distances are miles, and pubs sell in pints. Don't even get me started on the other stuff, like how the 1st floor is one above ground level. All told, we've enjoyed our time here, so maybe a full

wasn't really in order. I'm just looking forward to the move being DONE. There are few things I hate in life more....
BTW, anyone 'round these parts going to the
Palo demo in London on the 20th? I'll be there.
Matt
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 9:41 am
by John Hobson
BTW, anyone 'round these parts going to the Palo demo in London on the 20th? I'll be there.
Matt - unfortunately Jedox did the old Applix thing and forgot we don't ALL live and work in London, so they have a half day worth of content in London starting before the first train gets in from the civilised parts of the country.
They'll learn.
I am saving myself for the promised Northern event when I can save a fortune in travel expenses, wear my sparking clogs
and fill up on black pudding.
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 1:40 pm
by roger
George Regateiro wrote:Budget cutbacks hacked the Forum out of my plans.
Oh well there is always next year.
If you could keep the rest of us informed with any important news that might come up it would be greatly appreciated.
There will be no next year. At least, not for a stand-alone Cognos Forum. However, there will be some sort of Cognos Forum in the IBM IOD conference to be held at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, 25-28 Oct 2010. Not sure if they will do the same for the EMEA IOD forum next year.
Looking at the Mandalay Bay web site, guests can "see sharks of all kinds, along with ... piranha...and the rare golden crocodiles". Not sure if that is referring to the attendees from IBM or the shark reef aquarium.
Mark your diaries, last night I dreamt...
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 1:53 pm
by John Hobson
The cabin boy said...
last night I dreamt...
or of course as Kipling had it
Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak!
On the road to Mandalay . .

Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 2:56 pm
by roger
last night I dreamt...
I was thinking more Rebecca
Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak!
On the road to Mandalay . .
oohhh, very pointed.
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 3:20 pm
by John Hobson
I was thinking more Rebecca
Ms Hansen will no doubt be over the moon (if she still reads this forum) to hear that an old salt still remembers her

Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 5:33 pm
by stephen waters
John Hobson wrote:I was thinking more Rebecca
Ms Hansen will no doubt be over the moon (if she still reads this forum) to hear that an old salt still remembers her

NOOOOOO..... That's not what I meant ( and I am sure you know that). Rebecca as in the first Mrs de Winter! as in "last night I dreamt I went to Mandalay again"
Re: Cognos Conference May 2009
Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 5:42 pm
by John Hobson
NOOOOOO..... That's not what I meant ( and I am sure you know that). Rebecca as in the first Mrs de Winter.
I did indeed get the Du Maurier reference.
You've slipped out of character by the way
