War Room
In today’s complex corporate computer networks with hundreds or even thousands of servers and vast portfolios of business applications, things have got so complicated that nobody actually knows how it all hangs together any more. This wouldn’t matter too much if things didn’t go wrong every now and then, but they do. So when something goes pear-shaped in such installations a whole host of people (network managers, DBA’s, system administrators, performance specialists, support engineers, funambulists, etc.) need to meet up in order to indulge in group hysteria and blame-storming. The place where they congregate is usually referred to as the “war room”.
Wiki, Wikipedia
“Wiki wiki” is Hawaiian and it means, literally “taking a paint spray can and using it to write slogans on the wall”. Wiki wiki is a felony in Hawaii, where they had severe graffiti problems in the 1980s and 90s. However some enlightened Hawaiian chief had the idea that if you set up web sites specifically for graffiti writers to post their cherished slogans then they were less likely to deface the walls in downtown Waikiki. So taking its cue from this, the word wiki is now used to describe web sites that cater to poor souls who are desperate to write a word or two—or even a slogan—in a collaborative environment. Now there is even an encyclopedia of inane writings, called the wikipedia.
Word Processor
A gargantuan text editor with thousands of features, ten of which are useful and five of which are used.
Wormhole Router
A router that bends the space-time continuum and sends your information packets through a parallel universe before delivering them. (Yes, there is such a thing as a wormhole router. Google it.)
Workflow
The continuous movement of IT jobs from the US to India.
