The Geeky Brit

Ok so check out the awesome trailer…. Nuff said.

Letter to the Editor: The oil conundrum:

“We are told every day that the reason for the $100 price of crude oil is because of the increased standard of living in India and China, increasing the demand on the petroleum market inventories. At the same time, a lot of companies are sending their business to India and buying their products from China, all because their services and products are much cheaper and make it more profitable.
If the people in India, who we are told have a salary of $1 a day, are going to buy a gallon of gasoline it should cost them pretty much the same as in the U.S., right?”

I have often wondered this same question myself. If oil is becoming prohibitively expensive for us affluent americans how come countries like China and India are experiencing so much growth in oil consumption?

So recently whilst looking for some php niceness, I came across the Zend framework.

Wow, I like it. Most frameworks I have seen require you to essentially rewrite your existing code to fit in with a certain design pattern. Zend allows you to use the functionality as a library, and gives you the option to integrate their MFC model. The option is just that. There is no requirement to use it. But the amount of inbuilt and upcoming functionality is very impressive. JSON, OpenId, Auth, validation … the list is long, check it out here.

This stuff is very nice, and if you like/use/dislike PHP I recommend you check this out.

So whilst Sean was having fun with his Colorado Caucuses!, I got to sit by once again, and advise my lovely wife how to vote. Whilst I am a legal resident, without being a citizen I cannot vote. Yes folks, even marrying a US citizen and living here for numerous years, paying taxes and being a valued member of the community does not get you automatic citizenship, and more importantly today, the right to vote.

How would I have voted? Probably the same way as my lovely wife did, but of course, I will not presume to have her permission to share that vote with you!

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