Now not everyone lies on their resume but they do embellish a little bit.  I try not to embellish at all since I am afraid I would be called out on it.  Some people their resume is a large pack of lies.

There are a few things you have to do to get a good looking resume.

• choose your diction/prose properly.  Have a friend edit it.  Take their edits and yours and meld them together.  Then try another friend. etc.  You want to polish it off as best as you can.
• spellcheck.  bad spelling will kill your resume.
• standard document formats only.  I strongly suggest word format (not the new .docx format but standard .doc format).  Or pdf is an acceptable format most of the time.  Dont do excel, powerpoint, pagemaker, text, webpage, etc.  I would offer my resume in the .doc format and mention to the recruiter that you have it in other formats if that works best for them.  Flexible is good.  But try to work with the standards.
• find a good format/layout that is clean and neat.  Most recruiters will only spend like 15 second (maybe more) looking at your resume the first time.  They need to be able to scan it and see the right information.  if it is not well laid out then things will get missed or it will be painful for the recruiter to read.  Either way, you wont get the job.
• dont put info on the resume that doesnt need to be there.  Objective?  your object is to get a job.  Anything else you put down is part of the “bag if lies” I referred to earlier.  All it is is filler.  Also references?  skip that info.  All those people are going to be very biased for you and say you walk on water.  That might have been important twenty years ago but today it is just a waste of space.  Hobbies?  they dont care about you hobbies.  The more you have the less likely you will work extra hours when needed to.  marriage and kids?  never ever put this down.  They have no need to know about it.  All these things that are filler, are distracting to the resume reviewer (recruiter).  As someone that used to go through twenty to well over a hundred resumes a week, every week to review them for possibility of putting them in the interview cycle, I could not stand those filler blocks.  Those blocks distracted me from the meat of the resume and people could get dropped because of it.

What I used to do every quarter is have my quarterly fight with my father.  Now my father is a brilliant brilliant man.  He is not a geek in the modern day definition.  He is an Aerospace Engineer building advanced military aircraft.  So these “fights” were arguments over the diction/prose in my resume.  At the time I was a consultant and I had to keep it up to date.  He and I would argue over the smallest little change of wording or which word to use.  Yeah it put a strain on our relationship for a few days and we didnt want to talk to the other.  But what it did was give me one of the best resumes out there for someone with my experience/knowledge.  My father and I havent had that argument in a while.  although I am not looking for a new job or plan on looking for a new job, I think I should dig up the resume and start the right again with him.  the more often you update the resume, the more likely you wont forget things and there is less to do each time so it is less painful.

1) RIAA Export Witness is an idiot (my words not theirs). RIAA’s export on P2P is deemed “borderline incompetent”. Which is a big blow to the expert witness testimony.

2) MediaSentry’s rols in RIAA lawsuit is getting investigated. MediaSentry has been acting like a Private Investigator (PI) without a license. Oops. You really should look at the laws before doing work in a given space.

3) MIT student to fight RIAA. Yeah! fight those bastards! They go after college students since they are broke and scared of the death they are amassing from school, so they are more likely to settle out of court.

4) here is an interview with the misguided RIAA. They are really misguided.

5) Here is another bonehead manuever by RIAA. Make a training video for the DA’s offices and not expect the world to see it. Here is link one and link two about the video. I have only watched a few minutes of the whole video since I started to cry I was laughing at how stupid it was. You know that all drug dealers are also music pirates and it is very easy to bust them on music piracy and then add on the related drug charges to it. Yeah all these pirates are drug dealers. NOT! but what can you do?

6) RIAA wants all citizens to run copyright filters on their PCs so they can block piracy at the individual computer level. Hmm nope.. not going to do it.

The has been a bunch of links (below) on how various groups are going after Scientology and trying to take them down or off line or whatever.

Honk If You Hate Scientology
Anonymous hackers take on the Church of Scientology
LOLzcats go after Scientology too
Why the Cult of Scientology Needs to be Abolished
Scientology teachings claim Jesus Christ was a pedophile
Internet group declares war on Scientology news.com.au
Scientology heads worked for the CIA
What part will you play in the war on Scientology

WASHINGTON (AP) - Consumer advocate and 2004 independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader sued the Democratic Party on Tuesday, contending officials conspired to keep him from taking votes away from nominee John Kerry.Nader's lawsuit, filed in District of Columbia Superior Court, also named as co-defendants Kerry's campaign, the Service Employees International Union and several so-called 527 organizations such as America Coming Together, which were created to promote voter turnout on behalf of the Democratic ticket.The lawsuit also alleges that the Democratic National Committee conspired to force Nader off the ballot in several states."The Democratic Party is going after anyone who presents a credible challenge to their monopoly over their perceived voters," Nader said in a statement. "This lawsuit was filed to help advance a free and open electoral process for all candidates and voters. Candidate rights and voter rights nourish each other for more voices, choices, and a more open and competitive democracy."Among other things, the lawsuit alleges that the DNC tried to bankrupt Nader's campaign by suing to keep him off the ballot in 18 states. It also suggests the DNC sent Kerry supporters to crash a Nader petition drive in Portland, Ore., in June 2004, preventing him from collecting enough signatures to get on the ballot.The lawsuit seeks "compensatory damages, punitive damages and injunctive relief to enjoin the defendants from ongoing and future violations of the law." It was not clear how much money Nader is seeking; his attorney, Bruce Afran, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.A DNC spokesman also did not immediately return a telephone call for comment. 

There is a ton of articles out there discussing this case. This one discusses why the RIAA won. This one discusses the case. This one discusses it from a more technical side. This one talks about the defendants attack on the RIAA. This one talks about how the judge bars the president from testifying. And here is abc’s response/article.

EDIT: added’ abc’s article.

I am traveling this morning to go to Indy to see friends. At the airport this morning in line for security, the place where you walk through metal detectors, a guy was as stupid as they get. Several people pointed out that the metal detectors pick up even the smallest amounts of metal. So what? He had metal studs on his face, plus lots of piercings. Lots and Lots of metal.

Women wearing FMP (fuck-me-pumps) and trying to hustle in the airport. When you have a 2-4 inch heel and the diameter of the heel is no wider than a 16 penny nail, you dont move real quick. Those heels look great but dont work well when trying to walk fast or even run.

When will people even learn?

Now the airline (Delta) didnt have an aircrew for our flight on time. Once they showed up, we took a “mechanical” on the flight. Good news is it was the alternator so we got a jump from the generator to get the plane started. That doesnt scare me.. just bothersome since I wanted to get to Indy to see friends.

And no it wasnt Kevin Smith.  Some idiot walks up to the mike and asks a dumb-ass question especially where he was and whom he was speaking to.  Kevin Smith it great at the Q&A sessions since he thinks very quickly on his feet and has a great sense of humor and will not only reply to your comments but destroy you in the process.  You have to see the article to see the video (no direct links to the video, sorry!)