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…<\/p>\n
The word for today is Barratry<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n The SMH is reporting that QANTAS is looking at maybe outsourcing its “information technology application, maintenance and support services”<\/a>. 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. <\/p>\n