Other people's parcels
I have been working on a very in-depth post about International Trade, Make Poverty History and the Millennium Development Goals, but as I haven’t finished it I am instead going to talk about other people’s parcels. Lots of people in my road have parcels arrive for them during the day. I see this from my…
I have been working on a very in-depth post about International Trade, Make Poverty History and the Millennium Development Goals, but as I haven’t finished it I am instead going to talk about other people’s parcels.
Lots of people in my road have parcels arrive for them during the day. I see this from my window which commands a commanding view across the neighbourhood. (Not that I’m nosey you understand.) Unfortunately no-one else in the street is in during the day as they are all out earning a lot of money while I sit there looking out of the window.
So, the parcels men, seeing me at my window, all come knocking to see whether I will take the parcels for my neighbours. Yesterday I had two such callers, one of which I managed to convince that I was not a good bet for speedy delivery of said parcel as I was to be out during the evening. The other though did insist on leaving one large flat box and one small thin box with me, which I will probably now have for the best part of half a week as no-one came to collect it this evening and I am away at the weekend. I am slightly worried that my neighbours will be a bit cross with me as I suspect the parcels contain items essential to the smooth running of their weekend activities, but it is really not my fault for being not in during the times that I am away.
If anyone else would like me to look after a parcel for them with little hope of retrieving it within anything remotely approaching a reasonable length of time then do feel free to get in touch. I will put them in the hallway alongside the others.
Talking of parcels and other postal items (as we were), I would just like to take this opportunity to add a very small and unobtrusive reminder to this post to inform any who may not be aware that that offer of having a small microcomic posted freely to you is still open. Scroll down my friends, scroll down.
UMO – International Cartoon contest
The UMO – International Cartoon Contest is held by UsabilityMatters.Org towards the World Usability Day. All the awarded and qualified cartoons will be exhibited on 3rd November 2005 on the World Usability Day.
Participation is open to all cartoonists from every country in the world.
There is no Entry fee.
Please go through the rules and regulations – and in particular – the conditions applicable to the intellectual property rights.
Theme for the Competition
Frustrations caused by Technology
eg., machines, gadgets appliances & internet
Technologies have now become the integral part of modern era. In our daily routine life we encounter with several products and technologies to make our work and life easy but does it solve the purpose always?..
Sometime it comes as a fear to learn,
Sometimes it’s dangerous to use, and
Sometimes it leads to frustration….
Our encounter with technology continues every single moment, when we are relaxing, or when we use different appliances in home or office, our lives are full of moments with technologies, and theme for the competition is to identify such moments, specially the ones that cause frustration and convey them with a humorous and thought provoking cartoon.
Awards and Acknowledgements
A jury will select the top 6 winning entries, the cartoonists will be granted a cash prize award of
First prize Rs.25,000/- (Rs. Twenty five thousand only)
Two second prizes of Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. Ten thousand only) each and
Three Third prizes Rs. 5,000/- (Rs. Five thousand only) each
An exhibition of the winning and short listed entries will be held and UMO will publish an exhaustive works report.
The jury and the judgment criteria
We are in process of putting a jury of well-known professionals and socially active personalities. The names will be announced in due course, depending on confirmation.
For Judgment jury will use criteria such as creativity, humor, visual communication, presentation, persuasiveness, originality, cleverness, relevance of content and execution to identify the winner.
Deadline for Submission
Cartoons will be accepted through October 3, 2005
Rules and Regulations
Entries : up to 3 cartoons per person
Size (snail mail) : A4 (210 X 297 mm) or A3 (297X410)
Size (digital) : 300dpi and in dimensions that are suitable for printing
Technique : free
Entries in hard-copy/paper will not be returned.
Exhibition and Prize distribution
On World Usability Day, November 3, 2005
Submitting your entries
Mail your cartoons keeping the competition name in subject line to usabilitymatters [at] gmail [dot] com.
If you are sending through the snail mail, use the following address:
“Usability Matters.Org”
407E- Block,
Keerthi Apartments,
Yellareddyguda,
Hyderabad-500 045
India.
Please mention a little background information about yourself that may help identify you with your work and the email id that will help us get back to you with any communication.