tomatolounge

An interesting read on some of the more recent outsourcing trends.

It would be easy to imagine Reno, Ohio, as the type of place that would be hit hardest by outsourcing – a small American town losing out to the invisible hand shifting jobs to places like Bangalore and Guangzhou. Instead, outsourcing is bringing the jobs to Reno. Across the street from an Army Reserve center and next to a farm, a customer-service call center hums, its 250 workers answering phones for online travel agency Expedia. The center’s owner? Indian conglomerate Tata Group.

in 1 easy step.

1. Don’t do anything that even vaguely resembles this

there’s a fine line between loving your dog and spoiling your dog and while STC has a couple of very spoiled dogs, neither Willy or Alfie (what’s that smell?) have any of these doggy toys (yet).

illustration only, no actual dogs were harmed in this blog post.

doggy treatmill

doggy cellphone

doggy beer

doggy fanny pack

doggy girlfriend

and for those of you with cats, allow me to present, kitty washing machine.

Update: For the record, I have 2 cats and know first hand how much they’d absolutely HATE the pet spa.

Yeap… I live in one of these block of flats…

STC NY invaded Singapore for 2 days and still can’t get enough of it.

I know you are busy people, so here is the history of Singapore in 300secs…