Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) includes this tidbit:

Whenever you post anything to the Internet — whether on a weblog, in a discussion group, or even in an email — think about how it will look to a hiring manager in ten years. Once stuff’s out, it’s archived, cached, and indexed in many services that you might never be aware of.

A young first-year graduate student colleague asked me the other day, “Bill,” he said (they all call me by my first name, no matter how many times I correct them — how cute!), “Bill, how are you planning for the job market when you graduate?” To which the correct answer was of course, “Sonny Jim, when I graduate, I am a job market.”

Prejudice, Mr. Nielsen, does not become you. But it does help classify you. Keep up the advising, so we will know where you have been left standing.

(Via Pharyngula.)