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We've been looking for months... but our HR department doesn't know the buzz words (neither does the PM). So I recently shot the buzz word list over. The position is for an experienced (I need an apprentice ;) .NET developer in the DC area, with a clearance. Salary will range from $60K-$90K.

Two days after I forwarded the list to our recruiter... I get this resume back. Similar years of experience, but has been a team lead way more than me and has served as technical editor for Fritz Onion's recent ASP.NET 2.0 intro book from Addison-Wesley. Sounds good to me... but he's looking to start at $175K. That's pretty much double what I suspect my company could stomach.

So if you are a .NET developer (preferably C#) with a few years of experience under your belt with SQL, VS, ASP.NET, DHTML, etc... send me your email. Oh, and make sure you have a clearance. If not, my manager won't even consider you.

Somehow Google coordinated in mere hours a sea-change in the way the internet works - without having one standards meeting. Who is John Galt? Google is.

Apparently, Google got MSN and Yahoo to agree to add a NoFollow attribute to HTML. According to Google, all you have to do is rel="nofollow" to your anchor tags, and your links no longer contribute to the page rankings of the linked site. Also, blog software can automatically inject it into comments to prevent comment-spammers from hijacking your comments to increase their own page-rankings. Sweet.

Now I've got to get moving. I'm late for work. Doh!