I call it, “fury of the sea.”

There are few things I consider myself good at, but resume writing is one of them. I worked at the career center of my university and took a shitload of prep courses. What I’ve learned about what’s conventionally taught versus what works is useful. This post isn’t going to be your run of the mill resume advice. Instead, because I’ve had to read through a ton of resumes recently, I’m going to address some of the more common issues I’ve seen. I’m serious, I’ve read through hundreds of these fucking things.

What doesn’t work:

1. When addressing your cover letter, don’t write “Dear Sirs:” Women also read cover letters, you dingbat.

2. If your resume is over two pages long, I’m skipping you on basic principle and out of self-preservation. If you’re that verbose on paper, you’ll probably kill us all in your interview. I don’t give nearly as much of a fuck about your life history as you think I do. keep reading »

Life is crazy. I have to come up with aliases for the people in my life so that I can refer to them in this blog without putting anyone on the spot, or incriminating the guilty. Okay, so first person I need to create an alias for is one of my friends who lives in the same building as Manfriend and myself. She’s an awesome person, and I don’t want to get into too much detail about her, because this is an public blog, but it would be nice to be able to reference her and say, “So this weekend, Manfriend, Blank and myself went to a birthday party,” and obviously I can’t refer to her as Blank. keep reading »

It’s with a heavy heart that I draft this blog entry. I don’t like spending a lot of time or energy thinking about or researching the various members of the IE family. Their sordid history usually leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. With the latest release of IE9 beta, we are treated to some big claims from Microsoft. Among them:

1. “…we are actively helping set the standards for the modern web.”
2. “Through our investments in standards and interoperability, we hope to help bring predictability to web programming.”
3. “Because when you can spend less time rewriting your sites to work across browsers, you can spend more time creating amazing experiences.”
Source: www.beautyoftheweb.com

What irks me about all of this isn’t that IE9 is clearly trying. What bothers me is that Microsoft is making some bold claims and delicately skating over the fact that keep reading »

Hello Internet, my name is Alex and this is a story about how I grew up to become a preschooler. A drunk preschooler.

Every quarter my company has a giant meeting to discuss how fantastic we are and how much ass we kick. We compare lists of names with one another, (this is especially important for team building with other offices, as we don’t see them often), and share tips on the most effective ass-kicking footwear.

That was a slight exaggeration. Here’s a fact: keep reading »