Well, I had a good run, but kudos to you, Loic Hay, for unseating my resume from the top of the Emurse popularity heap. Given another few days, my wife might have taken care of this anyway.

Actual transcript of one side of a phonecall I just received:

"So, Chris, I heard you got a new job! Congratulations! Say, my son is looking for a job, and Sally said that you used some resume website. Do you have the name of that site?... murse.com?... dmerse?... d?... Immerse.com? Oh, e... m... ...as in umbrella, right... r... s... e... Ok, emurse.com."

Word of mouth advertising is great, but there's got to be an easier way...

Sixteen days ago, I read a blurb about a new resume hosting site called emurse.com. Being the early adopter that I am (except when adopting a blog, apparently), I signed up to make sure that I could get my preferred username; there are a lot of C. Finkes out there vying for the obvious six-character login.

So I input my information, and promptly bookmarked the statistics page to observe my imminent rise to the top (which, thanks to a digg post, actually happened). Later that evening, I mentioned to my wife my brand-spankin-new resume website. She asked, "Why would you do that? You're not looking for a new job." My response was (as it often is), "Why not?"

Fast-forward 5 minutes (an unnecessary fast-forward, perhaps), and my GMail account is boasting that beautiful "(1)" in the title bar that lets me know that I'm not alone in this dark dark world. It turns out that while my wife was questioning my use of online time, Alex Rudloff (emurse.com creator and Netscape developer) had seen my resume and thought that maybe I might be interested in applying for an open software development position at Netscape. And maybe I was. I mean, I was.

So one "Why not?" and sixteen days has brought me to a new job, for which I'm very excited. I'll be part of a team working on the new Netscape.com, and eventually, Netscape browser-related stuff. Working for and by myself was nice, but then again, human contact is nice too.