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.

Jim Marggraff, CEO of Livescribe, shows off the 2GB, Java-capable Pulse Smartpen at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The pen records audio as the user takes handwritten notes, then synchs up the sound with the writing. Audio can then be played back when someone taps the pen on paper. The device also converts languages instantly, playing translations out loud through the embedded speaker or displaying the word on its LED screen.

source: news.zdnet.com

In the Google Health you can create a profile for your condition and even for the procedures on taking care of it. You can also save tests results, and have a list of your allergies.

At start I was thinking this was a very odd service to offer, but thinking about it, this is really helpful. You can even find detailed information of your sickness/condition, or medical terms.

Just remains to know what is the Google plan by creating this variety of services.

The book is called The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques, and has been released free for a limited time, so go and grab you copy, while you can.

The objective of this day is to incentivate blogger’s to post an article about RSS, and that way expose more people to the existence of RSS and it’s benefits.

Like others I will post something about RSS. I will explain what it is and will do a little summary of its history.

So don’t forget on May 1st come here to read what I want to say about RSS.

More about the day on http://www.dailyblogtips.com/.

UPDATE: The official RSS day page is located at rssday.org, and you can get more info here.

Do you ever heard of RSS? What do you think it is?

Some bands like the Nine Inch Nails are releasing theirs albums for free on the major torrent sites, like thepiratebay.org. Some smaller bands have done this before to propagandize their sound, and now some bigger band started doing this.

The growing social music sites like Last.fm and Pandora are replacing the standards in music discoverability, we be naturally start using services like those two to discover and share new music. Our choice no longer have to be limited to price, or by what everyone is listening, or even what’s playing on radio. We can keep track of those, as before, but we have more flexibility to discover new bands and new genres, based on what we hear.

This is literally a revolution to music industry, we can not only hear, but we can share what we hear so that others can hear it too.

If the answer is massive, the energy saving applied will be brutal.
Only five minutes to see what happens.

If you are afraid of the dark light up a candle and simply look at it, we breathe and so our planet. Remember that the union gives strength, and the Internet can be very powerful and we can do something Big.

Spread the news, tell your friends and neighbors. Tell to people living in another countries, let them tell their friends and neighbors.
Ask them to translate and adjust the hours.

Christmas is coming and the WP-Remix creator released a contest to give a free copy of WP-Remix Theme.

This post is merely to enter the contest, since I don’t know much of this theme, but for the demo experience I can tell it should be well builted. And is quite a good “base” to start a simple site with WordPress as CMS.

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