My last week was spent in Chelmsford, Massachussetts at a company training function known as Digital University: Institute of Technology. Each day was mapped out for us, beginning with breakfast at 7:15 and winding up around 9 or 9:30 in the evening. Everyone was assigned a roommate to share their hotel room with, and busses shipped us back and forth from hotel to training facility.

I have to confess that I found *some* of the sessions valuable, but you will understand my overall disappointment with the week when I describe the highlights:

• My assigned roommate never arrived.
• As a door prize, I won an autographed copy of "Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems" by Bernstein, Hadzilacos, and Goodman.