Daily Salty
Blog URL http://dailysalty.blogspot.com/
Located London, London United Kingdom
A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt!!
Latest Blog Posts
- Asian caste discrimination rife in UK on Nov 22, 2009 in United Kingdom Casteism
Casteism is a canker on society, it hollows it out. The fact that it exists in India is not in doubt, but the fact that it has followed the Indian immigrants here to the UK is disgusting. More economic development or more education doesnt seem to hav...
- Sniff test to preserve old books on Nov 22, 2009 in Bibliophilia
I was invited to a breakfast with some of the grand poo bah’s, and one of the things that they ask in the initial form was to state your hobby. I stated that I was a bibliophile and one of the most interesting and loving things about this hobby is...
- See some of these pictures and weep on Nov 22, 2009 in Pakistan Women
Some heart rending photographs of women whose lives have been destroyed by men and acid. Click here to see the full list of photographs and their sad stories… Feel disgusted and horrified with the so called men who did this. May they ro...
- The Health and Safety way of burning books on Nov 20, 2009 in freedom of speech
Here are some Christian loons protesting against Satan’s books, music and videos. I cant believe we still have these loons around. oh! I am sorry, they still believe in creationism and that silly sod theory of intelligent design. Good Lord. The...
- Programmers arrested in Madoff case on Nov 20, 2009 in Infosecurity technology Financial Products financial institutions fraud
This is quite interesting. Usually the IT folks stay away from fraud and issues like this which are usually created and driven by the front office pukes. If the business gives a programmer a set of business requirements or it provides them with instr...
- Bangladeshis rush to learn English by mobile on Nov 20, 2009 in Languages education technology Bangladesh mobile communications
Quite an interesting development here. I quote: The project, which costs users less than the price of a cup of tea for each three-minute lesson, is being run by the BBC World Service Trust, the international charity arm of the broadcaster. Part...
- Unemployment by Age Group and Ethnicity on Nov 18, 2009 in USA Unemployment racism race
This image shows the latest unemployment figures for the USA for October 2009. Click on the image to show the full image. I found the ethnicity unemployment rates rather interesting: Black teens have a 41% unemployment rate, then you have whit...
