Outsource your job to earn more!

From this article in The Times of India:

Outsource your job to get a new one! This is the new mantra doing the rounds in the US IT sector.

Says a programmer on Slashdot.org who outsourced his job: "About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. I pay him $12,000 out of the $67,000 I get. He's happy to have the work. I'm happy that I have to work only 90 minutes a day just supervising the code. My employer thinks I'm telecommuting. Now I'm considering getting a second job and doing the same thing."

Smarter techies are working for three to four companies at the same time, outsourcing all the coding and just supervising them for few hours a day. This way they are able to earn four to five time more than what they used to.

That's Entertainment

Visitors to the Louvre museum in Paris, home of the world's most famous painting, started quizzing tour guides about Dan Brown's best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code".

Visitors clutching dog-eared copies of the book have poured into the Louvre and the church of Saint Sulpice ... Tourist guides were quick to catch on. They now offer tours exploring the book's locations and the theories surrounding Leonardo's works of art such as the enigmatic Mona Lisa.

[Ellen McBreen, founder of tour firm Paris Muse] launched her "Cracking The Da Vinci Code at the Louvre" tour in February and it now accounts for half her business, with around 100 tours a month catering mainly to North Americans.

I still haven't read The Da Vinci Code, though the whole Priory of Sion thing is old hat to anybody who spins alternative (or just plain fantasy) historical fiction :) I love ghost-style tours, anyway :)

You can read the whole Reuters article here.