It wasn't me. You can't prove anything.


2004-07-10

AH-HA!!!
Some sick freak was busted driving the wrong way on a one way street. When the cops pulled him over he was naked from the waist down watching child-porn on his laptop. He was driving around using open wireless connections to download this crap. I've been warning people for years that they need to encrypt their signal. Don't run an open connection for this very reason. What makes me sick is he was getting away with this until he took a wrong turn. I wish he had been busted for the download itself. That would have sent a nice message to the circle he runs with.

Resume.Woes
I'm figuring out that sending my resume to a bunch of people to review is a mistake. By the time most people get hold of it and take a moment to actually look at it, I've gotten some good feed-back and have completely rewritten the whole document. The changes the late comers tell me about is a waste of time because the document is no longer the same document..
Every one has a wholly different idea of what a resume should look like. I've gotten the following consistent change from every one who has looked at it. "make it third-person." That is it. Well, I'll do it. However, the other nine million changes are all conflicting. It is funny how four people can give me a suggestion and all four be completely opposite from each other.
"I like it when people put a nice professional picture on resumes. It really makes me want to hire that person."
"We automatically throw out every resume with a picture to avoid discrimination issues."
"Your goal statement is going to scare off potential employers."
"Nice goal statement. That is the hardest step."
"I can't open PDF. Is this a Word document?" (Not the person I want reviewing my technical resume.)
"The "Mr." looks pretentious on your name." (Same person who wanted a picture on the resume.)
"I like the "Mr." in front of your name, that is a great way of telling them your are male [Kelly]." (I think I will superscript it or something.)
A couple of people griped over the fact it was in PDF format. They tried to tell me Word is the industry standard. I've heard stories all over the place about people getting their resumes hijacked and used for other stuff. People changing the name and phone number in the resume and using it for their own. If I do send int in Word format I'm going to at least put a save password on it. That will keep out the riff-raff.

More Browser Trouble
Speaking of browser vulnerabilities, Mozilla has an exploit similar to the IE trouble last week. However, There is already a fix for the Mozilla (and FireFox) programs already available. It took less than 24 hours to publish the fix for Mozilla. MS has still not offered a true fix for IE. The download offered by MS is more of a work around and can actually be accidentally undone by the user if they go playing around in the settings. All this bad press is not helping MS in the browser market.

1 comment:

CyndyMW said...

I bet Kelly didn't mean that comment in a mean way... or did he? :o)

The kiddie porn thing is sick as hell. Yuck!