Many Pies

Many Pies

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Rights and wrongs

After eventually logging into the sage.co.uk site (after resetting my password etc.) I was told
You do not have sufficient rights to access this page.

To gain access to this page you must satisfy one or more of the following conditions:

1.

You do not have sufficient rights to access this page
2.

You do not have sufficient rights to access this page.

You know, I think I don't have rights to access the page.

Monday, October 30, 2006

WYnet UK on youtube

WYnet, our youth network, have started putting up their videos on youtube:


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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Wycliffe on YouTube

With all the news about YouTube I suggested to someone who has involvement with some of the videos we've made that they get put up there. They're asking permission, but it turns out that there are some there already. This is one from Wycliffe USA.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Data analysis - always more complicated than you think

My first proper job (apart from working on a pig farm) was as "Computing Support Officer" for what was then York Health Authority and is now probably North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust.

One of the things we did was a survey of mental health patients. Once the data was in a database I had two Community Mental Health nurses coming back to me again and again with questions on the data, and analyses that they wanted me to do. Twenty years on and I'm doing the same thing. As before, it's always more complicated than you think, and it amuses me that it is.

So I'm asked, "can you tell me who gives regularly?"
So I ask, "by standing order?"
"Yes."
"Do you want to know those who have just filled one in, or those who are actually giving by one."
"The latter."
"Do you want me to spot those who give quarterly and annually too?"
"Yes, of course."
"And presumably you want me to not include people who missed their last payment?"
"Yes, of course."
"So I need to check that in all the times when they should have given that we have actually received a gift."
"Yes, it's more complicated than I thought isn't it?"
"Yes. OK, moving on from that. What about those who regularly given cheques."
"Yes, we we want to include those too."
"What do you mean by regularly."
"Well, every month or so."
"So say 10 times out of the past 12 months?"
"Yes."
"And those who have started giving that way in the past year, you want me to reduce the amount proportionally - so 5 times in the last 6 months, say?"
"Yes, anything else?"
"Direct debits...."

I don't mind having conversations like this. Just so long as I manage to tease out what they really want.

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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Favourite verse initial results

Some initial results from the "my favourite verse" survey are out. There aren't enough numbers for individual verses to count, but you can see the favourite books of the Bible. I find the comments interesting too.

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Monday, October 02, 2006

Support Bible Translation via eBay

During October you can donate part of all of the money you make on eBay to us via MissionFish.

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