Zazzle.com - Disney InkShop!
Design your own Disney shirt! And the art is sweet, as it uses teh wonderful artists at Disney. Picke a character, a movie or a style and go wild, folks! Lots of options, and it's even fun just looking as some of the samples.
On a side note, this is a fine example of 'create on demand', where the item is created from the order, and everthing can be a custom order.
Keep an eye out on things like this popping up. It's going to be an 'on demand' world real soon...
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Sunday, March 21, 2004
Mom and Pop Yahoo... from a spare bedroom somewhere in India
Koramangala - Bangalore's Most Happening Place
In this election cycle, we are hearing lots about outsourcing, and high tech jobs going to places like India. I even have some personal experience with that, having trained my replacment by phone and email who was in India.
But, as always, it isn't as simple as either side makes it out to be.
But don't worry... I'm not going to get into that today. I think a more valuble, and more interesting and informative, thing would be just to give you a taste if India. Not as we see it, but as they do.
This site is run out of the spare bedroom of a middle class, middle aged couple in India. The wife still grinds floor and rice, and there is a very large collection of her recipes, and she will even teach you how to cook out of her home. Some interesting Inidan dishes, but also Mexican, Italian and more!
There is news, reminder services, and you can send them a deposit (they are too small for credit cards), for which they will run errends for your... getting flowers, delivering gifts, and such.
Think of them as a Mom and Pop Yahoo for India, run on a shoestring budget and lots of love.
I saw this on Sunday Morning, a great news show. The reporter spent a week at their home. They bickered... the wife talked about how the husband could at least read from the prayer book before getting out, and maybe that dog wouldn't have bite him. But even when they are, you can see the love.
Sorry for the long entry... I guess I missed blogging.
In this election cycle, we are hearing lots about outsourcing, and high tech jobs going to places like India. I even have some personal experience with that, having trained my replacment by phone and email who was in India.
But, as always, it isn't as simple as either side makes it out to be.
But don't worry... I'm not going to get into that today. I think a more valuble, and more interesting and informative, thing would be just to give you a taste if India. Not as we see it, but as they do.
This site is run out of the spare bedroom of a middle class, middle aged couple in India. The wife still grinds floor and rice, and there is a very large collection of her recipes, and she will even teach you how to cook out of her home. Some interesting Inidan dishes, but also Mexican, Italian and more!
There is news, reminder services, and you can send them a deposit (they are too small for credit cards), for which they will run errends for your... getting flowers, delivering gifts, and such.
Think of them as a Mom and Pop Yahoo for India, run on a shoestring budget and lots of love.
I saw this on Sunday Morning, a great news show. The reporter spent a week at their home. They bickered... the wife talked about how the husband could at least read from the prayer book before getting out, and maybe that dog wouldn't have bite him. But even when they are, you can see the love.
Sorry for the long entry... I guess I missed blogging.
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