Comments(0) I saw these flowers today, so time to take a photo. Note the sploches on the leaves. We’ve had literally a few drops of dusty rain in the last couple of days. So that’s what you get on the leaves.
Comments(0) Comments(0) Those doubting the Olympics being such a great and honorable event. I had my thoughts recently about the torch relay’s nobility. And now this in the BBC on its origins.
Sports is not fair anymore as you see here.
Credit to mental floss for this.
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From boingboing: Flinstones car victory in court. True and hilarious.
And on a less shallow note. The next world crisis will be water.
Can aviation go green with algae-based biofuels? Also from boingboing. I’ve been thinking of this lately. It is the short term solution. Using arable land is stupid and is causing the ridiculous food prices nowadays.
Comments(0) We never seem to have enough luggage tags, though a few of these would cost quite a bit of money.
Comments(0) This is a song from my youth. It is amazing how so few chords can be so engaging! The power of music.
Comments(0) Comments(2) Kuwait’s population gets boost from foreigners
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Monday, March 31, 2008
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s population rose by 6.8 percent to 3.4 million in 2007, with foreigners now making up 69 percent of the total, an economic report said on Sunday, quoting official figures. The expatriate population in the Gulf state rose by 8.5 percent to 2.345 million, while the native population rose 3.1 percent to 1.055 million, or just 31 percent of the total, Al-Shall Economic Consultants said in a report based on figures from the Public Authority for Civil Information. The percentage of native Kuwaitis has been dropping every year as recruitment of foreign manpower, especially from Asia, has risen dramatically. Kuwait’s labor force increased by 6.7 percent in 2007 to 2.092 million, with foreigners representing a massive 84.5 percent of the total. The number of Kuwaitis in the workforce dropped by about five percent to 324,000, largely due to retirement, Al-Shall said. Over 255,000 of them or almost 79 percent are employed in government jobs, the report said. Native Kuwaitis account for more than 70 percent of public sector workers but just 3.9 percent of the 1.8 million in the private sector. - AFP
From the The Daily Star
And I think last night all of them were driving into Fahaheel around dinner time. Too much traffic now there. I won’t go to that area on a weekend again. It used to be OK early in the evening.
