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Success For Your Resume
Mar 25th
If you are an entrepreneur you have to remove anything, and everything from your resume that hints that you have big ideas. For instance, if you host your own email server, do not place that email on your resume. Make a quick Gmail email and use that instead. Also, I have had bad experiences telling interviewers about my websites, and servers. Do not put them on your resume. Although you can most definitely mention that you have server experience, but say that you did it for some company, or for a friend or relative. The whole point is to avoid talking about your entrepreneurial tendencies completely! Companies want employees to stay around for decades. Their whole philosophy must be “why train an employee if they are just going to leave in a couple of years?”. The second a potential employer knows that you are an entrepreneur they know the second that you save up a couple of hundred thousand dollars you will leave to start your own business. YOUR POTENTIAL EMPLOYER DOES NOT NEED TO KNOW THIS. Be strategic. Do not let them know anything other than the false impression that you want to be employed by them forever. You need to make them believe that you have no other employment opportunities, and you want to work for them for many decades. Talk about their pension opportunities. Mention your desire for an IRA, or 401K. Talk about the long term benifits of the company, and possibly mention how you need insurance. Although do not give the impression that your main purpose for employment is just the health benifits. Overall make the potential employer feel that you need them. They want you to need them. I’m sorry entrepreneurs, we live in a world where companies want sheep that are completely dependent on the employer!
iPhone Email Spam – Dealing with it Using IMAP
Feb 19th
IMAP mail servers keep the files on the server, in addition to allowing external devices to access and download them. Basically IMAP allows you to synchronize your iPhone with your mail folder the same way you synchronize with your iTunes music. The beauty of this is that you can use a spam filtering program, such as Evolution or Mozilla Thunderbird to establish customized spam filtering rules. Overall, after about a days worth of tuning the spam filter rules, you can practically eliminate all mail spam that would typically go to your iPhone. If you use Gmail, Yahoo mail, or another other mail system, you will first have to forward the emails to a mail server that supports IMAP. I believe Gmail offers IMAP, therefore you can probably set your spam filter rules directly in Gmail, and then synchronize your Iphone with your account. Yahoo I know does not currently support IMAP, therefore you will have to forward your email to an IMAP server, or settle with the SPAM filtering provided by the Yahoo interface. I find the Yahoo interface relatively limited, specifically compared to the elaborate parameters that can be set in Mozilla Thunderbird. Frankly I highly recommend just forwarding all mail to a local IMAP server, and have Thunderbird continuously running to filter out the crapola. I am not going to get into setting up a mail server, as I have covered it extensively in the past. If your interested in setting up your own IMAP server feel welcome to search this blog in the upper right hand corner for more information. You do not need a domain name, as you can forward the email directly to your external IP address 
Basically this concept only works with IMAP because POP will download the messages from the mail server, then clean the spam, and the mail will only be on the local machine in the Thunderbird directories. IMAP keeps the mail on the server, and Thunderbird will successfully clean out the BS leaving the mail accessible to other devices such as your iPhone.
