Chris

Australia - your Ma mentions every day another anecdote when C&M were here . We are not a million miles away from Pt Douglas - you will remember Mirage hotel - luxury - " Slick Willie " had been there the day before we arrived

You may like to read www.australiait.com.au/thehub - the paper yesterday reviewed IT for 2010

Australia is booming and there is a totally different upbeat philosophy here from government as opposed to gloom in UK

The article has comments from boss of Accenture and IBM Glen Boreham with views

Interesting but all big projects are government - the latest is NBN - the broadband which is sucking in all IT professionals - multimedia etc

There is also 600$ million DIAC system for people
700$million Tax project

and it quoted smart metering and grid computing projects plus integration of web2 technology into business - never heard in UK mentioned in paper

what was interesting was no bank projections other than integration such as Westpac and St Georges at present

Hays IT said main deficiency are top level project mangers but it may give you ideas for future developments.

We are regular visitors at Vinnies - remember Mairead worked but we cannot get on welfare programme! We use as library although i have on a very nice T shirt bought for 6$

The game in Leeds tomorrow with Melbourne - paper says the pitch is covered in snow.

Tropical downpours today although around pool later and going to fish restaurant tonight - about every 3rd day we go out.