I would like to say to everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. The year of 2007 went so quick, now is time to rest, get a few days away from work and do a bit of travelling. My wife and I are going to Perth, we are going to rent a campervan and travel around. I will leave you with a picture of me and one of our recently acquisition.

A função de Programador Java, esta a mais de uma ano na lista de ocupações em alta demanda publicada pela imigração Australiana. Esta lista, como o próprio nome diz, mostra as profissões que estão em alta demanda na Austrália, mas não somente isto, as ocupações nesta lista dão aos candidatos a imigrar para a Austrália pontos extras no sistema de pontos para imigração independente. Skilled Independent, como é chamada a subcategoria para imigração permanente para a Austráia e funciona num esquema de pontos, onde o candidato tem que atingir um certo número de pontos (atualmente são 120 pontos).

This blog post is part of the [Blog Action Day][1], which is a project to bright together bloggers to write about the environment. I’ve been using the a lot of the Google Apps recently so I decide to talk about [Google Notebook][2] and why I think you should use it in order to be more environment friendly. [Google Notebook][2] is an application that allows you to take notes while you browse the web.

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Last month CNN Money put up an article titled The Facebook Economy. The Article is very worth reading. It talks about people and companies writing applications for Facebook and the business model involved. It is not a surprise that most of them base their model on advertisement, but what is a surprise, at least for me, it is the number of Facebook users that a single application can have. There are some numbers in the article in the range of millions.

Application Service Provider, when I first heard that the first think that came to my mind was a Microsoft Word like application being able to work in a browser. I can’t remember which year was it, but I can tell you that was a long time ago. Today when I watched this video bellow, I thought we finally got there, the day that Word got into the browser.