Careers: After reading a Wall Street Journal tip on how to forge an insider referral, Nick Corcodilos writes, “I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.” A less dicey way to fake it. “Lots of luck to you if you try it, and to the sucker who hires you.” Personally, I hope you won’t make such an attempt, even if it does spring from an esteemed publication. Advice Line: When you do find yourself in the position of leaving a job, whether by hook or crook, you’ll most likely be faced with an exit interview — and the temptation to let loose for the good of the company. Never a smart move. “My best advice is to treat the exit interview as if it was an entirely legitimate activity, but without saying anything that would be unwise if you were planning to continue as an employee the next day,” Bob Lewis suggests in How to handle an exit interview. “What you stand to gain is nothing at all.” Best of the blogs: Search fatigue. You may not have heard that particular phrase but, undoubtedly, you’ve felt the symptoms. It “is only now becoming recognized as a problem, mostly by reference librarians who see it every day, in online searching,” Ephraim Schwartz writes in Reality Check. “My advice to Microsoft is to go to the folks sitting behind the library reference desk. They can probably tell you how to create a better search engine than Google.” He’s not just picking on Microsoft, either, but more than a year ago the company did claim its search would best Google by now. Only thing is, when Schwartz looped back to speak with company executives about it, Microsoft issued a ‘no comment’ on search progress. Open source: With Apache calling on Sun to make available an “acceptable license” for the Java SE test kit, Matt Asay points out that it’s not so easy to flick the switch and become open. “I think sun means well here and generally does well,” Asay writes in this Open Sources post. “Let’s cut them a little slack. But not too much.” Careers