Given the weather at the moment I suspect I will be building today… But we will see… The weather lately has been changing so rapidly that it is often hard to predict what it will be like a few hours later…

The word for today is Barratry, which is basically a vexatious litigant, or a master of a ship who doing something bad to it. Why do I know this? Well, an ex-boss of mine actually used it in an MSN conversation… Not exactly sure how (or why) but he did manage it. Seems that about once a week I need to look up a word that he uses… And I think I have mentioned other words before.

The SMH is reporting that QANTAS is looking at maybe outsourcing its “information technology application, maintenance and support services”. They have about 700 IT staff and are looking at outsourcing the jobs of half of these. The airline noted it runs 600 separate IT applications – from flight planning, engineering, load control systems and ticketing to Qantas’s frequent flyer scheme and website. Whichever way you look at it, 700 applications is a lot to manage, and I suspect that Qantas will also be looking at how to rationalize the number of applications.

Finally, eBay has admitted to an “extreme growth” in the number of personal accounts being hijacked by fraudsters. . Criminals are obtaining the secret passwords of eBay subscribers and using their sites to conduct bogus auctions for non-existent goods.