That's quite interesting. We have done a little excel work. We had a few problems where it was optional to use excel to compute summations. I did use excel because I'm rather adept and it worked out well - I had a very, very low percent error and a very, very high grade
On a side note I have a cousin doing agriculture study and calculating total energy input/output using massive spreadsheets. Just kind of cool.
I ran a small webserver once. It ran Windows Server 2000. I threw Apache on there with MySQL. I figured out how to do Apache, and since I knew HTML and a little flash, I had fun with that. Never really got into the MySQL but I understand the basics of it. I tried doing some hand-scripting, and then attempted to use a program to set up databases. I never really did anything worthwhile.
What the hell is VBA, if I may ask?
I agree though, it is a nice basic skill to have to be able to whip things up out in the field. Regardless of bolstering my resume, having skills like this helps out in a lot of odd situations.