The Google ad appearing currently on Gmail reads:

Web 2.0 LAMP Programmers
www.securenext.com
Experts in PHP, Mysql, Ajax, CSS
Reliable,Smart&Trusted-15$ Per hour

Securenext advertise themselves as a software development company with offices in Clovis, California and Chennai, India.

I was referred to this site by a friend.

If you are looking for a better job, then you should look at this site.

www.joboola.com

It explains:
What job sites don't want you to know.

Worth reading.

In recent years, Bangalore has outpaced Silicon Valley in the global innovation race. This is not a temporary blip, writes author Ashutosh Sheshabalaya, but a fast-evolving reality to which the American IT industry must adapt for the long haul. While offshoring is hardly a new phenomenon, it was previously restricted to back-office support functions. This is no longer the case: IBM and Hewlett Packard, among other technology multinationals, recently shifted some of their high-end R&D activities from the US to India. "Ironically," Sheshabalaya writes, "accepting India's centrality in the white-collar jobs debate, as well as the inevitability of its rise as a technology power, may provide some new choices for embattled American IT workers." India will face a shortage of managerial and marketing skills while dealing with Western customers, creating a significant opportunity for European and American workers. Likewise, the West must "dismantle definitions (and perceptions) about 'our' companies and 'theirs.'" And American IT workers, for their part, must perceive the new Indian tech giants not as undertakers, but as potential employers. – YaleGlobal

For the entire article:

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=6209

Author is writer of an interesting book called Rising Elephant - about India's challenge to America. Quite a good analysis of the political picture - beyond the usual 'expert' opinions.

http://www.risingelephant.com

Here's an excerpt from the Australian immigration newsletter for August 2005:

The Australian Government currently seeks skilled workers to fill shortages created by the growth in the Australian economy. 97,500 work rights visas have been made available between July 2005-June 2006 allowing skilled workers to work and live in Australia. The Australian Government statistics also confirm 89% of Skilled Independent visa holders gain employment within first 6 months and 92% within 18 months.

Imagine that....with one of these visas, you can pack up and move to Australia, and chances are pretty good that you'll find a job there. This is the world we live in now.

Click through below to see the text of a very peculiar email I received a day or so ago. This may only be spam, given the Google Mail return address - or is it an actual attempt to recruit US workers for jobs in Australia and elsewhere by an offshoring firm in Mumbai?

Hi,

Anyone know why the Rescue American Jobs
http://www.rescueamericanjobs.org
website is down? It's been down for about 8 days. The United Steel Workers of America didn't have any information as to what happened to it.

Thanks,
Diver

Australia just added 20,000 visas to the number it will grant to skilled immigrants in the twelve months starting July 2005, bringing the total available to a record 97,500.

Pretty damned bad, although it's marginally better than it was, say, a year ago. An article published last month in the Denver Post tells the tale. Between 2000 and 2004, jobs are way down and personal bankruptcies are way up.

This is last minute. Please take a look at
http://www.prweb.com/releases/200524/3/prwebxml214946.php
HDI Conference & Expo. Venetian Resort in L.V., Nevada, March 6 – 10, 2005.

If you live in Nevada, you may want to take a look at this promotion of IT job destruction.

Sorry I didn't get this posted sooner, I just found
Regards, URL.

If you're in the same boat as the 1.5 million Americans who filed for bankruptcy protection last year, and many of us in IT certainly are, you'd be well advised to file sooner rather than later.

Oh, and by the way, IANAL.