Entry #6146 Assortment

I’m daydreaming of giving my sweetie a long, loving hair-scrub, temple massage and Burt’s bees bath. I’m in nurture mode.

Today went a bit better than yesterday, even though RI inadvertently tore a letter from my brother in half and chucked it out, thinking it was trash. I had to instruct her kindly, but firmly that she is to *never* touch my things again without asking me first. I feel it was an honest mistake, albeit one that could’ve been avoided if she wasn’t being a busybody in my office.

Back’s doing well… I’m going to get info on the surgery a week from tomorrow.

Haven’t heard from my brother in a few days… I’m getting a bit antsy. Hopefully tomorrow will bring a letter.

one year ago Frankenstein, Manchurian Candidate, MD sniper, walk at about 3mph

two years ago distance poll, evil news, cecity

three years ago First anonymous troll, Saw Psycho Beach party with the bro, Pinky Tuscadero violates probation.

From the palm this morning –

I have the songs “old gray goose” and “hole in the bucket” rattling through my noggin this morning. I woke up early, but was slow to get out of bed. I was sleeping on my side , and newt was the length of my back, snuggled up.. no escape!

7:57 am Power out in half of the building when I arrived. I only hope it’ll be back up quickly. First clue was the BK next door in a blackout… No morning fizzy drinks or coffee to jump start. The elevator is kaput, too… At least I wasn’t in there with RI ! The maintenance man says it has been out since he got here at seven. I’m not sure of what use I can be until there’s juice, but I’ll get to scramble immediately afterwards.

/palm


Pareidolic Imagery Collection – Ghost photographs and the like.


Create your own tabloid.


Bruce Timmm Gallery: A jim dandy comic book artist.(the guy that produced the superman and batman animated series) A fine leap from when he was doing He-Man and GI Joe.
– via the gray pumpkin


Italian movie posters and Egyptian movie posters. Take your pick, both have an abundance of weird, painterly illustrations.


Monkey that knows karate. Who can resist?


India’s tech industry is booming. More jobs going going gone

Companies are slashing payrolls in the United States and Europe to cut costs, moving software work offshore and creating thousands of jobs for India’s low-cost engineers.

India’s software sector, including the back-office services industry, added 130,000 — nearly 25 percent — to its workforce in the year to March,
Headhunters are scrambling to fill the new jobs.

“The shelf life of a job hunter has come down to two weeks from about two months,” said Gautam Sinha, chief executive at TVA Infotech, which is placing about 90 software workers a month, double the number from the start of the year.

Top home-grown software exporters such as Wipro Ltd and Infosys Technologies Ltd are also on a hiring spree but the bulk of their staff additions are entry-level positions.

India’s software sector, including the back-office services industry, added 130,000 — nearly 25 percent — to its workforce in the year to March, taking the sector to 650,000. Wage costs are rising but are not yet a threat for a nation that churns out about 200,000 engineers per year, analysts say.

Software workers with two years of experience are paid about 25,000 rupees ($545) a month, roughly one sixth of what their U.S. counterparts earn but a princely wage in a country with an average per capita income of $480 a year.

“Multinational company salaries are 50 to 60 percent higher at the entry-level and 30 percent higher at the middle management level when compared with Indian IT services companies,” Bombay-based Kotak Securities Ltd said in a recent report.

A fall in U.S. employment visas for foreign workers is partly driving the expansion plans of high-tech firms such as IBM, Accenture Ltd and Oracle Corp. in India. Visa curbs discourage Indians from seeking employment abroad and some are returning from a stint overseas.

“Clearly, the romance of jobs overseas is no longer there for most Indian techies,” said Pandia Rajan, the managing director at Ma Foi Management Consultants, a leading headhunter.

Walk-in interviews are common in the shining offices of companies in the technology hubs of Bangalore, Madras and Hyderabad in the south and Delhi and Bombay in the west.

India’s call centers have been magnets for job-hunting youth in the past few years, but it is only in the last six months that software jobs are flooding the market after a two-year crunch. India’s software services exports rose to $9.5 billion in the past year to March and are forecast to grow 26 percent this year.

“Many Indians overseas are uncertain about their tech jobs and are coming back,” said Smita Goswamy, who runs HR Solutions, a small consultancy in the western city of Baroda.

A full-page advertisement from IBM screams: “The global giant is at your desktop with the opportunity of a lifetime. Can you afford to ignore it?”

Internet media giant Yahoo Inc. and Fidelity Investments, the number one mutual fund firm, are among other large companies moving technical support work to India.

Yahoo, which set up a software center in Bangalore in July, is tapping local colleges for talent, said Venkat Panchapakesan, who shifted from Yahoo’s U.S. center to head its software unit.

Accenture and Oracle are expanding furiously but their staff in India is still less than a quarter of Infosys and Wipro, which employ about 17,000 and 21,000 people respectively.

“Overseas firms are even hiring from mid-sized local players,” said Bangalore-based Shambhu Agrawal, who handles technology placements at ABC Consultants.


current mood: Dinosaur bones with a hairball. Hairball dinosaur skeleton – hukhukhwarf
current music: Natalie Merchant – Crazy Man Michael

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