This year my birthday celebration was really nice and quiet, proper for someone completing 31 years of age. All the Australian side of the family was here. Thomas, Tati, Matthias, Gabi and I. Tati even got this nice shot of Thommy playing some music.
Last month I got an Xbox 360, before that the only console that I owned was an Atari 2600, and that was back in 1986 when the video-game console had gotten to a reasonable price (in Brazil) and my daddy bought me one.
I remember playing Enduro hours and hours without stop. The other games that I had played a lot were Frogger and Keystone Kapers, the last one which I usually borrowed from friends. My entire Atari collection had just three games Enduro and Frogger that I just mentioned and Superman, which I kind of like it but had never got too much into it.
All the other Atari games that I had played I had either got from friends or from the rentals. This was the same rental place that I had used to fix my joysticks so many times (what a fragile thing they were).
On the Xbox 360 everything looks different I can’t imagine that it took me so long to get another video-game console (I’ve shared a PS2 with my flatmates and I own a DS but I guess this doesn’t count). The control (we don’t call it joystick anymore I guess is because it got too complex and the big stick is gone) has so any things to press that I still get confused playing some games.
The Xbox Live (the online section inside Xbox) is REALLY cool. This is the sort of interaction that just the internet could make available. You can chat with friends, compare scores, and see the leaderboard just with your mates and play against/with them. The amount of interaction with friends that is available is unbelievable and varies in between games.
Another cool feature is the ability to download demo of the games on Xbox Live Arcade (a special section on Xbox Live dedicated to arcade games) so you can get to know the game before purchase it.
In conclusion, I really do miss the time I had spent with my Atari 2600 but Xbox 360 has been a great experience to me and I think everybody should get one. Thanks to my friend Batata that pushed me to open my wallet and get one.
Yesterday, (11th March) I completed 4 years living in Australia. It is funny how the time flies. I remember meeting other Brazilians by the time that I arrived that were here for 4 years and I thought with myself: 4 years it is a very long time.
But it is not a long time. Here I am, and just look like yesterday.
I’ve seem the other day Robert Scoble’s twitter saying that he had interviewed Michael Dell, from Dell Computers live from his mobile. I thought it was something cool and I went to check it out. That was when I find out about Qik, the website that Robert was using to streaming his mobile videos. So, since I’ve got my new mobile Nokia 6120 Classic I decide to give it a go.
Bellow you find the video that I’ve streamed from my mobile while I was on the bus.
You can find my qik profile here. You might find me stream video from time to time, probably not as frenquently as I whould like because I just have signed up for a 100MB data package.
Lost, one of my favorites TV Shows (it used to be the favorite, but now the favorite is Heroes) will be back on USA this Thursday, 31st January. In Australia, we going to have to wait another week, when Lost will be on Channel 7 at 9:30 PM on Thursday, 7th February.
I am looking forward to it especially this first episode of the 4th season with 2 hours! Bellow you can see the catch up video resuming the three past seasons.
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. See you next year.
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 Austrália e funciona num esquema de pontos, onde o candidato tem que atingir um certo número de pontos (atualmente são 120 pontos). Para chegar nos pontos são levadas em consideração a idade, nível de inglês, formação acadêmica e experiência profissional.
Programadores Java
Quem sabe programar em Java e tenha experiência comprovada em TI de 4 anos sendo que 1 ano como desenvolvedor Java, pode fazer o pedido para reconhecimento da profissão junto a ACS (Australian Computer Society) órgão que regulamenta os profissionais de TI na Austrália. No site da ACS você encontra toda a informação necessária, formulários para serem preenchidos e taxas que devem ser pagas.
Processo de Imigração
Após ter a sua profissão reconhecida você precisará dar a entrada na Imigração, o site do departamento de Imigração tem todas as informações que vocês precisa. Novamente você terá que preencher formulários e pagar uma taxa a imigração para que seu processo seja avaliado.
Importante
Toda as informações que você precisa estão neste dois sites, leia com calma, as informações estão em inglês, ter um nível de inglês suficiente para entendê-las é fundamental para quem quer vir morar na Austrália.
This blog post is part of the Blog Action Day, 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 and why I think you should use it in order to be more environment friendly.
Google Notebook is an application that allows you to take notes while you browse the web. I don’t know if you use to do like me while I am in front of the computer but what I used to do was I generally use the post it, that famous peace of yellow paper, and I took notes of everything, things that I reminded that I had to do, even some websites that wasn’t relevant enough to put in the bookmark.
This is where Google Notebook comes in, now you can take notes of everything on it and you can also access it from anywhere. In this way you will save some piece of paper which consequently will save trees and also space on the bin later on.
This is a very small action from a very small blog, but I am sure that every action counts.
Business are going well thank you very much!
Last month I got an Xbox 360, before that the only console that I owned was an Atari 2600, and that was back in 1986 when the video-game console had gotten to a reasonable price (in Brazil) and my daddy bought me one.
This blog post is part of the 