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If you aren’t aware of this, the Portuguese language is going to change. Not the way we spoke it, but the way we write it. Eventually some words will change it’s sonority, but It will remain almost the same.

I have recently found something about this here:

The Portuguese parliament voted last week to change its national language to reflect the more popular Brazilian Portuguese, the language used by about 80 percent of the world’s 230 million Portuguese speakers. In the next six years, European Portuguese will be phasing in three new consonants – k, w and y – and dropping confusing hyphens and silent consonants. So from now on, when you are IM-ing a Portuguese beauty, the correct style is otimo, not optimo, when she suggests meeting for a drink.

I’m not sure if this is what is passing from this change, but I really think this will confuse people.

How can Brazil, as a Portuguese colony, change Portugal Portuguese to Brazilian Portuguese?

It isn’t, but reading the article that is the idea you get from it, And it’s wrong.

The new orthographic agreement was build accordingly to the 8 countries that use Portuguese. Only Portugal is hesitating on implement this, but I don’t see it as a bad choice, and the government hopefully will be leading the right way on this.

One of the most annoying things in some site, is Music!

I hate entering a site and start listening to some song, or radio, that the site owner like to have playing soon as the page loads.

Imagine you are visiting one blog, and soon as you open the page you start hearing a song, it isn’t a bad song, but you are listening to your favorite CD’s, or simply listening to nothing, and then you got HIT! by the song the site is playing. You searched, you searched, and then you found the player in the only place you wouldn’t search at first.

Is it me, or this is really annoying? Again, the music doesn’t need to be bad, it just feels out of place, and if you are entertained with something else it will just become annoyer, and you will eventually loose interest on what you were trying to reach(by entering that site).

I’m not saying music should be banned from sites, I’m just trying to share the idea of having everything in the right place. Of course there are sites where you expect to have music (from your experience) but are about those annoying others I’m talking about.

I have blogged for many years, and at the top of my blogging experience I had to stop doing it, for personal reasons.

This happened two years ago… I was the owner of some blogs, under Portuguese language, and was participating on several others, posting and commenting.

I didn’t stop immediately blogging, I really stop posting new content, but I still leave my comments on some blogs(with less frequency).

Nowadays I don’t have a routine for “the blogging”, I even tried to maintain this blog, but I have lost many respect for it. The lack of available time was really an excuse for posting(now I see that)

If I had the right respect for it, I would be posting regularly information. It doesn’t have to be LARGE posts. It could be some tiny paragraph, or several quotations, showing my interest on some topic.

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Many times asked your self, what is RSS and how can I get more info about it.

Well, RSS is an Abbreviation for Real Simple Syndication [you probably searched for this already], but what you don’t know is what is it used for, and how can you use it.

The RSS as we know was first invented by Netscape to distribute information(news, stories, etc.) but they dropped the idea too soon, until some group started building some interpretation of what should be RSS with the name of Rich Site Summary. Time passed and they decided to let Harvard Law school be responsible to manage the RSS specification.
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