SCAM WARNING

My wife was looking for a job on Craigslist, and replied to two different jobs, both of which had a full.name.hr@gmail.com address. Both replied with links to a website with a form to fill out.

After some digging, I found some exhaustive answers regarding the legitimacy of this site and SEVERAL others. Any site in the Career Network appears to be suspect. I did a search, and all of the companies that are mentioned in these articles are related to the same "Destiny Careers" firm.

The moral(s) of the story:

Don't send your resume out to just anybody.

If a job poster replies with a website, and you still don't know who the actual employer is, etc. - stop. Think. Research.

Be careful out there. When using job sites, be sure that you trust the site before leaping - no matter how great the job appears. Getting your life back is a lot harder than having it stolen.

Lovin Linux

How is this for convenient and lazy - Blog Entry Poster.

Right on my desktop, I have an application that took all of about 35 seconds to configure and popped up a box for me to post away to my hearts content.

While I am having my issues with my Laserjet printer, and screwed up my home installation so bad I had to re-install, I am overall very happy with my Linux experience. While I do have an extensive background with Windows desktops (stretching all the way back to when Window was a GUI for DOS), my *nix experience is limited. That said, I have found that there are now GUI tools for most tasks, and the ones that must be completed from the command line are fairly well documented. There are certainly MANY more things I need to discover and learn about the Linux experience, but thus far, I am easily able to access all of my old data, create new documents, surf the Internet and now.......post from my desktop.

Very cool!