An excellently written covering letter will ensure your CV is at least glanced at.  Keep it short.  Avoid colour and exhuberant formatting.  And, pay attention to the following, crucial elements:

This is a unprovoked and no-mercy-spared attack on the perceived right of ordinarily sane, everyday individuals (such as middle managers and project co-ordinators) to morph into corporate executives with a mouth full of marble-shaped glass paperweights when they open Microsoft Word or Microsoft Outlook and their fingers first glance the keyboard. I’ve blogged before about [...]

Goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg developed the first printing press in Western Europe (circa 1440).  The technology was based on screw-presses that were already being used to press cloth and grapes.  The genius of the Far East had already beaten him to it though, inventing woodblock printing and moveable type (after which a modern weblog management tool [...]