Have you ever looked at the back of your bottle of Shampoo. You will notice that amongst the highest ingredients is a substance known as SLS. SLS is a key component of Road Tar and also waste food. When I first looked this up I was rather astonished, but then I did more research and I found out that this was absolutely correct. This is probably why our eyes tear when we get Shampoo in our eyes.
I now by principal buy only Baby (Tear Free) Shampoo, which dont contain SLS. I also stumbled upon a SLS free all natural product know as Mujj. Mujj originates in Canada. It is quite hard to come by, but with its all natural ingredients is a great product for your hair.
I looked up the Mujj website http://www.mujj.com/ but it seems to have gone for reconstruction. So will look back later to see where else I can come by the product.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Outsourcing Software The Truths
This Blog is intended to help people like me who have been burnt too many times trying to outsource software projects to so called independent software contractors.... beware. Please contribute your experiences, so that we can all learn from each others experiences.
You may think that you are getting a fantastic deal as they offer you a rock bottom rate and take a small upfront fee. I have been burnt 4 times... as I am a trusting person so I always wanted to give each independent guy a fair chance. But they all take a small advance payment. Then they promise to deliver the solution in a specified period of time. Once they get closer to the delivery date, you usually cant get through to there phones as they avoid your calls. Invariably you get through to them days later at which point you are desparate for your software and hence cautious not to upset them. The Independent contractor then demands more funds, or else threatening not to release the software. So you pay him a further 40% - 50%. With only 25% left to pay him the Contractor is now in the driving seat. He will deliver you the software at this stage, I gurantee you it will be substanded. The contractor will now say that your change requests are out of scope and demand more funds. This has been the story of my life. At this stage I usually agreed to pay them more.... but this never resolved the issue. My advise is tell him to piss off... Dont outsource software to Independent Contractors.... Since they dont represent a company they find it easier to let you down...They dont really care about reputation... just cash in hand.... The 4 projects I outsourced were to Independent contractors based in India.
You may think that you are getting a fantastic deal as they offer you a rock bottom rate and take a small upfront fee. I have been burnt 4 times... as I am a trusting person so I always wanted to give each independent guy a fair chance. But they all take a small advance payment. Then they promise to deliver the solution in a specified period of time. Once they get closer to the delivery date, you usually cant get through to there phones as they avoid your calls. Invariably you get through to them days later at which point you are desparate for your software and hence cautious not to upset them. The Independent contractor then demands more funds, or else threatening not to release the software. So you pay him a further 40% - 50%. With only 25% left to pay him the Contractor is now in the driving seat. He will deliver you the software at this stage, I gurantee you it will be substanded. The contractor will now say that your change requests are out of scope and demand more funds. This has been the story of my life. At this stage I usually agreed to pay them more.... but this never resolved the issue. My advise is tell him to piss off... Dont outsource software to Independent Contractors.... Since they dont represent a company they find it easier to let you down...They dont really care about reputation... just cash in hand.... The 4 projects I outsourced were to Independent contractors based in India.
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