If you have moved to Australia or are planning a permanent move to the country, then you will most likely want to gain citizenship in Australia so that you can be afforded all of the rights that come with being an Aussie.If you are interested in gaining Australian citizenship, you should know that it might not take you as long as you might think to become an official Aussie. Under current rules and regulations, immigrants are able to apply for Australian citizenship after only two years of residence in the country within the previous 5 years. The stipulation here is that a full 12 months before making the application must have been spent within the country. When you are ready to submit an application, you can expect it to cost around $150. Read the rest of this entry »

Every year, approximately 150,000 permanent residents become Canadian citizens. Here’s how to be one of them.

Difficulty: Hard

Time Required: Four to five years

Here’s How:

1. Be a permanent resident of Canada. If you’re not yet a permanent resident of Canada, please see Immigration to Canada.
2. Live in Canada for three of the four years before applying for Canadian citizenship, and be able to communicate in either English or French.
3. Learn about Canada. You must be able to pass a test on the rights and responsibilities of Canadians and know about Canada’s political system, history and geography.
4. Download the appropriate citizen application form from the Citizenship and Immigration Canada site.
5. Fill in the citizenship application form, following the instructions on the form carefully. Read the guide that goes with the application form thoroughly before you complete the form, as the application fees are not refundable.
6. Pay the application fees and get the appropriate receipt. The amount of the fees will be listed on the application form. Attach the fee receipt to your citizenship application form.
7. Have two citizenship photos taken to meet the photo specifications outlined in the citizenship application. Sign the bottom of the photographs. Place the two photos in a small envelope.
8. Sign and date the citizenship application form.
9. Attach the required documents to the application form. Documents include a copy of your immigration landing record, copies of two pieces of identification, and the two citizenship photos.
10. Mail the application form to the address given in the application.
11. Once your application for Canadian citizenship is received you will receive a copy of the book “A Look at Canada” in the mail. Begin studying the book as soon as you receive it.
12. You will receive a Notice to Appear for a Citizenship Test. Appear on the date and time at the address in the Notice, and take the written citizenship test or interview as requested.
13. If you meet all the requirements, you will receive a Notice to Appear to Take the Oath of Citizenship. Appear on the date and time at the address in the Notice, and take the Oath of Citizenship.

Tips:

1. Be sure you are eligible the day before you sign your application. There is no refund of the processing fee.
2. While you only need to include photocopies of your documents with the application form, you will need to bring the originals with you when you go to your test or interview.
3. Complete a separate application form for each child. A child can only become a Canadian citizen if his or her parent is one.
4. To apply for Canadian citizenship from outside Canada, consult your local Canadian embassy or consulate.
5. In general, the processing time is about a year from the time your application is received until the time you attend your citizenship ceremony.

Taken from :
http://canadaonline.about.com/cs/citizenship/ht/beacitizen.htm

Over the last week I came across 4 great blog-related resources that I wanted to share:

1. 66 Ways To Build Links in 2007 - Brandon Hopkins has a huge list of ways to build links. It’s one of those blog posts you should bookmark and keep re-visiting every so often. Marketing and promoting your blog should be a never ending process, and a good chunk of that work is in link building.
2. WordPress Plugin Directory - WordPress has finally put together a comprehensive plugin list and organized it neatly and properly. Already I’ve found a few plugins I wasn’t aware of, including some very popular ones that warrant more investigation. This will very quickly become the de facto resource for all WordPress users when looking for plugins.
3. MultiSubmit - A neat little tool that lets you submit a blog post to multiple social bookmarking type sites all at once. You can pick which ones you want to be setup for, and it’s an incredibly easy process. It doesn’t work for StumbleUpon though, which is too bad because StumbleUpon is a great service. Still, it’s a very fast way to get a blog post put into the most popular social bookmarking sites including digg, reddit, Netscape and del.icio.us.
4. Blogged Out - Darren Cronian is starting almost from the beginning, introducing people to ways they can promote and improve their blogs. The information to-date is basic, but it’s always smart to start at the basics and learn along with others. Darren’s goal is to run Blogged Out for 3 months, earn $1,900 and donate 40% to charity.

Hope you enjoy these resources!

Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else’s hobby. I hadn’t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims.

But now it seems quite possible. In fact, if you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom’s, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.

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เชื่อว่าทุกๆ คนก็มีมุมที่ชอบเป็นการส่วนตัว … เราเองก็มีมุมที่ชอบนอกห้องทำงาน … มุมนี้อยู่ในห้องนั่งเล่นเล็กๆ ในบ้าน มองเห็นสวนเล็กๆ บ่อปลา น้ำพุ น้ำล้น เสียงน้ำ … แล้วก็เพลงสากลเก่าๆ Susan Wong … คอมเล็กๆ สักตัว เน็ตเร็วๆ แค่นี้ก็สบายๆ ใจแล้ว แถมยังมีตัวไรไม่รู้แอบเข้ามาแจม … (ฮ่าๆ )

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Affiliate marketing is indeed the lazy man’s best friend to making money online. In fact I would surmise a guess that 90% of people started internet marketing doing affiliate programs.

If you are new to internet marketing, I like to share with you how you too can profit from affiliate programs. Some technical know-how on using webpage editor like Microsoft FrontPage to do up a simple sales letter web page with an opt-in form will certainly be an advantage. In this short article I have to assume you do. Otherwise go to additional resource at the end.

With some practice, you can easily replicate these 5-step system in a day and create as many affiliate sites as you like. Read the rest of this entry »

ช่วงนี้จัดสวนเองครับ เลยต้อง research วิชาเกษตรที่เรียนตอน ม.ปลาย อีกครั้ง … ในสวนเล็กๆ หน้าบ้านมีต้นไม่และดอกรวมๆ กันหลายๆ อย่างครับ อยากให้สวยก็คงต้องบำรุงกันให้ถูกวิธี .. เริ่มกันที่ปุ๋ยและยาฆ่าแมลงกันก่อนเลยดีกว่าครับ Read the rest of this entry »

The Google search engine, and its partner sites, are used more than 200 million times a day. Their popular pay per click advertising program, Google Adwords, allows you to create your own ads, choose keywords to tell Google where to show your ads and pay only when someone clicks on them. Google AdSense is for web publishers who want to make more revenue from advertising on their site while maintaining editorial quality. AdSense delivers text-based Google AdWords ads that are relevant to what your readers see on your pages — and Google pays you. Read the rest of this entry »

Whether you want to go on a vacation, buy a house, or enjoy a comfortable retirement, you’ve got to learn to save money. Unfortunately, many of us tend to spend whatever we earn or more. We know savings are important for unexpected emergencies or major life changes, but we just can’t seem to put some cash away for a rainy day. Want to stop living from paycheck to paycheck? Read on and start saving today. Read the rest of this entry »