The best and least followed advice is simply to negotiate pay. I have always gotten at least a small increase in an offer after negotiating.

Now I'm the boss, and whenever I go into a hiring discussion I always have two figures in my head -- what I'll offer, and what I'm willing settle on. Don't be the fool who jumps at the first offer. Not only will you make less, but your boss will think less of you for it.

Interesting that it is a right-wing nation like Columbia that chooses to get it's OLPC laptops with Windows installed. There's no good reason why the choice of software should be a political decision (that goes for you too, Stallman), yet so often that is the case.

I'd like to invite some of the government officials who balked at a commie OS to my office where they can see that real business is done with open source products all the time.

Reality has a clear liberal bias. There's nothing wrong with the media portraying both candidates realistically. That meant that they talked more about McCain's negatives than Obama's, because Mcain is a vapid know-nothing with no real ideas.
BTW, there's absolutely nothing wrong with ignoring Obama's teenage drug use as it is irrelevant. The media also ignored Cindy McCain's more recent drug use (including prescription fraud that would send a less fortunate person to jail) and McCain's poor performance in the Naval Academy and throughout his military career.